Daqin Engineering Corps

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"If business is allowed, this piece of paper will only sell for half a penny, and I, Shen Bing, can become rich overnight."

"Secondly, the young master thinks that if the price of paper is cheap, it will be convenient for the world?"

"My lord should know most of the people who need paper!"

Fusu was speechless when he said that.

Because the people who want to use paper will never be the people who are farming in the fields, or even ordinary scholars...

The reason is simple. Ordinary poor scholars will still use bamboo slips considering the cost, but it is more troublesome and not portable enough.

The reason why some people are desperately hungry to buy paper is because the picture is fresh and fashionable, and it is not necessary to use it.

So most of the people who need paper are rich and dignified people.

Fusu, for example, has never used bamboo slips for writing and drawing since paper became available.

So at this time, the price of paper is expensive, and it is appropriate to rob the rich and help the poor... robbing the riches of high-ranking officials and nobles, and helping the poor like Shen Bing.

One day, when the education popularization rate is high, ordinary people will be able to write and have demand for paper, and then the price of paper will affect ordinary people.

Then Shen Bing added:

"However, if you want to use paper, you can come and get it at any time."

Fusu hummed and didn't reply.

Fusu himself didn't understand what was going on, he couldn't understand Shen Bing's actions very much but he couldn't tell what was wrong with Shen Bing.

In fact, not only can't tell where Shen Bing is wrong, but Fusu also thinks what Shen Bing said is right.

Perhaps, this is the reason why Fusu is not used to it... He subconsciously still sided with Chunyuyue, and Shen Bing's right meant that Chunyuyue was wrong, so Shen Bing should be the enemy, at least ideologically enemy.

Then, Fusu saw many noble children gathered in the lobby to copy...

During this period, those who could read and write were basically the children of the aristocracy, and if there were any exceptions, it was Confucianism.

Although Confucianism at this time produced many pedantic Confucians because of its immaturity and impracticality, its progress was to put forward the idea that "there is no distinction between teaching and learning".

The so-called "education without discrimination" means that everyone can be educated, regardless of the noble or the humble.

This is simply a boon in an era when the right to education was basically monopolized by the nobles, and ordinary people could only farm, exploited, and oppressed from generation to generation.

As a result, many commoners became Confucian scholars to learn the principles of governing the country, and then were recommended to enter the officialdom and embark on official careers.

However, this situation is rare after all, and most of the people gathered in the lobby are still noble children... Shouchun completely surrendered, leaving behind many educated noble children from the original Chu state.

Fusu asked in surprise:

"Why did the deputy general gather them here for punishment?"

Shen Bing replied:

"My lord, it's just copying something, it's not punishment."

But thinking about it, Shen Bing himself felt that their appearance was quite similar to when they were punished by the teacher when they were young.

Fusu took a "notice" and looked at it... To be precise, it should be a "leaflet".

I saw a few small frames with text on it, which roughly said that as long as the people of Chu surrendered to the Qin army at the Huaihe River, they could get a field and a house, and have new farm tools for production, so they could enjoy a better life.

Fusu couldn't help laughing when he saw it, and said:

"The deputy general's move is to persuade the people of Chu to vote for Qin?"

Shen Bing replied:

"Exactly, the young master thinks it's wrong?"

Fusu shook his head and shook the "leaflet" in his hand, and said with a smug smile:

"If this thing can make Chu people vote for Qin, why do we need to send hundreds of thousands of troops on expeditions?"

"The deputy general took this matter too simply."

"The deputy general needs to know that if you want Chu people to vote, you only need the word benevolence and virtue."

Shen Bing just smiled and didn't answer.

He believes that Fusu should replace "benevolence" with the other two words "benefit".

Countries talk about interests, and the people also follow the interests, especially the people in the countries of the Central Plains who have no hatred of foreign races.

Chapter 277 Leaflet

Propaganda warfare is not difficult to operate.

After copying one by one in this way, they are folded together and then rolled up, and then they can be stuffed into bamboo tubes and hollowed out logs, or flattened and hidden in a carriage, sandwiched in the interlayer of a tent, etc.

There are countless ways to hide, all you need is a little thought.

But if it's bamboo slips, then it's over... It's not that bamboo slips can't be hidden, in fact, bamboo slips can mostly be hidden where paper can be hidden.

The problem is that the interlayer and the bamboo tube can hide one or two bamboo slips, and even if you are exhausted, you can't take much.

Not bringing much means that it is difficult to form a group effect.

Then Shen Bing asked the soldiers to dress up as Chu people and carry these leaflets into Chu territory.

Originally, Shen Bing wanted to bother Chu Min to do this.

It is not difficult to achieve this. After the Qin army occupied Huaibei and harvested a large area of ​​land, it also obtained a large number of Chu people, and these Chu people could be used by the Qin army.

All that is needed is to use some small money and then take his family as a hostage... It is normal to take people as hostages in this period, and after establishing any friendly relationship between countries, the prince will be used as a hostage.

However, Shen Bing sent people to the Chu state to investigate, and found that it didn't seem necessary.

The reason is that the management of household registration in Chu State is very chaotic. For example, the household registration systems of the Zhao, Qu, and Jing clans have not been integrated... Of course it will not be integrated. Each fiefdom is private property, including the common people, so there is no need to separate the household registration with other nobles. put together.

This can lead to a whole host of problems.

For example, people under the management of the Qu family wanted to go to the Zhao family to do business, and the Zhao family suspected that he was a spy of the Qin State. If they wanted to check his household registration and other details, they had to go to the Qu family to check.

It is not enough even to go to the Qu family to check, because after the Qu family finds no such person, there is no guarantee that he is a member of the Jing family, and then he is still a small clan such as the Dou family, the Cheng family, the Ban family, and the Sun family.

After checking all of them, there seems to be no proof that he is from Qin, because there are still refugees from the Huaibei area who were exterminated. Where can I check this household registration?

From this we can see the superiority of the prefecture and county system in the Qin Dynasty at this time.

Its national household registration is integrated in one system, as long as you report who you are, and search down from county to county, if there is a real person, you will be able to find out, and it will be clear at a glance whether you are a spy or not.

Chu State does not have such a strict household registration system, so the investigation of foreign people can only be limited to the level of "listening to their words and watching their actions".

Any inspections and rumors are fake, just glance at them.

The main thing is to ask where it came from, and then search for weapons.

What the Chu army was most worried about was that spies with hidden weapons sneaked in and then cooperated inside and outside to seize the city.

If there is no weapon... what big waves can be turned out?So with one eye closed, it passed.

The "spies" sent out by Shen Bing were all unarmed, and then brought a few authentic Chu people to guide them to find a suitable excuse and enter the city easily.

These people started their activities that night.

Not exactly that night, but the moment when the curfew was lifted...

In order to facilitate management in a state of war, all countries will implement curfews.

Pasting leaflets on the wall during curfew is dangerous and meaningless: soldiers on patrol will find them as soon as they are posted, and then they will be torn up before dawn, whether they are posted or not.

But at the moment when the curfew was lifted, the soldiers and roadblocks on the street had been withdrawn, and the people on the street were sparsely populated. No one noticed anyone posting leaflets everywhere on the street.

Even at the entrance of the crowded vegetable market, some people sprinkled leaflets from high-rise buildings, and they fell all over the ground like snowflakes.

What's more terrible is that these leaflets are written on paper.

You must know that a piece of paper is worth [-] renminbi, or six catties of rice, in Chudi.

Even if the back of the written one is barely usable, it can be worth eight or ten dollars after a discount.

So isn't this just throwing money in the sky?

Immediately there were Chu people looting everywhere, and soon those people who were still lying on the bed in the house came out to rob.

After grabbing it, you will naturally look through the content. The simple pictures on it are clear and easy to understand. Many Chu people can understand it at a glance... As long as they go to the Huaihe River to surrender to Qin Dynasty, they will have land and houses, and they will be given farm tools to live a good life.

This is a big deal for Chu Min.

One of the reasons why Qin was able to unify the six countries was to give the people certain powers.

For example, if you are a soldier and gain military merits, you can be promoted to become a landlord, or even a high-ranking person to become a nobleman.

Even if you don’t serve as a soldier and farm at home, it’s because of the prefecture and county system implemented by the Qin State that the management rights of the people are collected as state-owned rather than the private property of the nobles...

On the surface, it seems that there is no difference between state-owned and noble-owned, and the common people have no power.

But if you think about it in detail, the difference is huge.

The private ownership of the nobles is also the slaves of the nobles. You can do whatever the nobles ask you to do, and even deprive you of your life.

But state-owned... that is the mountain is high and the emperor is far away. There is only one emperor, and those people in the palace are waiting for him.

If the common people had any duty to the nobility, it was to pay taxes, so they were freer and much more powerful.

Before that, the people of Chu State did not know this.

This may seem strange, but it is not surprising at all.

Because the king of Chu and the nobles knew that it would be of no benefit for them to let the common people know about these things. Just like the state of Wei, once the people of the neighboring state of Qin knew about these systems of the state of Qin, they fled to Qin.

So Wei Guo had only two options:

Either reform itself like Qin, or wait for fewer and fewer people to destroy the country.

The state of Wei carried out reforms, but the pace could not keep up with that of the state of Qin, and eventually the state was destroyed.

Chu State was unable to carry out reforms due to its own reasons, and it was also the country with the least reform among the seven countries, so it had to choose the third way: block the news.

Blocking news is easy to do in this era of extremely backward communication. Occasionally, a few businessmen come and say something that shouldn't be said... If they are caught, the businessmen who come later will not dare to talk too much.

So the people lived in a daze, and the princes and nobles continued to drink and eat meat.

If Qin hadn't come to attack, Chu's situation would have continued.

But Qin Guo came to attack, not only came to attack, but also Shen Bing.

Shen Bing only needs to ask the Chu people in Shouchun, and he will immediately know that the information between Qin and Chu is extremely asymmetric... The vast majority of people in Chu State know nothing about Qin State's superior system.

Or even if you know something, it is only half-believed as a rumor.

In this way, Shen Bing knew what to do.

Paper, why not use such a good publicity tool?

This thing is the best, most convenient, and cheapest propaganda tool in this era.

What does it mean to own and monopolize this propaganda tool?

It means having the right to speak!

Chapter 278 Results

Fusu is in a good mood these days, he is waiting for the result.

In fact, he didn't mean to wait for the result, but to wait to see Shen Bing's jokes.

If it is said that Shen Bing defeated Chunyu Yue in other respects, then Fusu believed that Chunyu Yue would defeat Shen Bing this time.

Fusu even said to his personal guard:

"Just relying on those few rough calligraphy and paintings to persuade the people of Chu to surrender to Qin?"

"This Shen Bing regards governing the country as a trifling matter."

"Although he has the talent of carpentry and the way of leading the army, he doesn't understand the principles of governing the country!"

"If my father knew this, he wouldn't have kept me here!"

Yang Duanhe is also waiting for the result.