"What Junhou said is that if my strategy of blockade of technology is to be implemented smoothly, it will indeed face great obstacles, especially the wealthy merchants who have mastered the world's top smelting, textile, and other technologies, will inevitably sacrifice themselves and make the world's people..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but smile bitterly, and bowed to Wei Qing and said, "Because I know it's difficult to do it, I will definitely not be able to do it by myself, so I have to come here with shamelessness and ask for help from the Lord!"

Wei Qing, who was in charge, couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Please help me? I'm afraid I can't help much! Xiaolang, didn't I say just now? In fact, the most outstanding things you mentioned, such as smelting, textile, casting, etc., are not actually in our Guanzhong, but in the old places of the other six countries!

And it is not easy to gather those techniques from the families of ministers who have existed for hundreds or thousands of years! No one in the world can do this except Your Majesty!

Even His Majesty wants to take back these rights, it is not easy to do so. What can I do if a relative or a general in Wei Qing do?”

"Uh" Zhang Ran was a little panicked when he heard Wei Qing say this, and felt that the matter seemed to be more serious than he thought. So he hurriedly asked Wei Qing, "June, how do you explain this?"

"Oh," Wei Qing couldn't help but sigh deeply when he heard this, looked at Zhang Ran helplessly, and slowly explained to Zhang Ran, "This matter will start hundreds of years ago."

As Wei Qing told the story, Zhang Ran gradually understood the whole story and understood more deeply that his original thoughts were actually a bit too presumptuous!

Zhang Ran used to think that with the acquiescence of the emperor and the support of Wei Qing, Dong Zhongshu and others, even if his technical blockade strategy cannot be completely accomplished, blocking the Han-Hungarian border and prohibiting various technologies from flowing into the Huns is not a problem!

But after Wei Qing's story, Zhang Ran realized that the real difficulty of this technology blockade was not the lack of support from the emperor and the court, but the world's top technologies, which were actually not in the hands of the central government, but from the local tyrants!

The reason for this phenomenon is actually very complicated, but in the final analysis, it comes from the inheritance of history and the current institutional problems of the Han Dynasty!

As we all know, from the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period when King Ping of Zhou moved eastward, the Zhou emperor lost the ability to command the world. From then on, the Spring and Autumn Period fought for hegemony, and hundreds of small countries fought against each other for hundreds of years, and finally decided on the seven heroes of the warring states.

These seven powerful countries in the world each have their own different writings, regional cultures, and different development directions. For example, the Qin State started out with farming and fighting, had extremely strong military capabilities, and its bronze smelting technology reached its peak. The bronze ware made by Qin craftsmen has been immortal for thousands of years, which shows its superb technology.

For example, the Chu State's casting skills are extremely developed, and the world-famous Gan General Moye is the sword-casting master of Chu State! In Qi State, its textile technology is unique in the world and has the advantage of fishing and salt. The technology of textile and salt cooking has always been far superior to other countries!

In addition to the powerful cavalry unit created by King Wuling of Zhao, the Zhao State, which was very powerful, was also very developed in the iron smelting technology of Zhao State, otherwise it would not be possible to compete with Qin State for the world overlord! The Zhuo Wangsun family, who smelted iron tools for Zhao State for generations, inherited from Zhao State's superb iron smelting technology!

In addition, other countries, such as the cultivation of Wei, the strong bow and crossbow of South Korea, the Yan State, the Yan State seemed to make pottery, and the leather technology was quite good. In short, the seven heroes of the Warring States Period each had their own strengths and their own unique development directions!

Nowadays, although the seven kingdoms are destroyed, the old nobles of the seven kingdoms still exist. They control the local coin, iron smelting, textiles, grain and other industries related to people's livelihood, and they also own a large amount of land. Serfs and tenants are full of local tyrants!

In addition, due to the chaos at the end of Qin a hundred years ago and the restoration of the nobles of the old six countries, the Qin system also collapsed. At the beginning, in order to appease the heroes of the world, Liu Bang had to compromise with the nobles of the six countries and adopted a system of county system and feudal system in parallel!

This directly led to the fact that the central government of the Han Dynasty's ability to control localities was far inferior to that of the Qin State at the time. Several industries related to the lifeline of the country's economy, such as coin minting, iron smelting, mining, textile, and grain, could not be nationalized and were still scattered in the old lands of the six countries!

For example, most of the largest textile centers in the world are concentrated in Qilu. There are hundreds of thousands of weaving households near Linzi alone. If we even include related industries such as silkworm breeding and silk reeling, then there are millions of textile practitioners in this place alone!

In addition, other industries such as smelting, mining, casting, salt making, etc. have their own collection places, and they are not in the Guanzhong base camp of the Han Dynasty... It can be said that before Liu Che adopted Sang Hongyang's opinion, implemented a salt and iron franchise, and brought the operating rights of salt and iron and other related industries to the central government, the locations of the above-mentioned various related technologies were actually very scattered!

Although the Shaofu where Zhang Ran is located has a huge organization and a large number of people, and at its peak it covers a lot of scope, and most of them revolve around serving the emperor, such as Shangshu, Shangyi, Imperial Doctor, Taiguan, Fujie, etc.

Although there are departments such as weaving rooms, silkworms, and examination rooms that are responsible for textiles, smelting and casting, they are far inferior to those in terms of scale, technical level, technical change speed, and even inheritance. They have developed for hundreds of years and have many related practitioners, and are often hundreds of thousands or millions of people!

Therefore, although the technological blockade proposed by Zhang Ran was very beneficial to the war between Han and Hun, the difficulties it faced were beyond imagination. This was no longer a simple technical belonging issue, but involves the current institutional issues of the Han Dynasty and the struggle between the central and local rights!

There is no doubt that Emperor Liu Che must have wanted to implement the county system and centralized system, and follow the example of Qin State to take all rights to the central government. Local tyrants are definitely unwilling to do so. They are more eager for feudal system and more rights and higher status! The contradiction between the two is almost irreconcilable!

Therefore, this problem can be big or small, and it is extremely difficult to deal with. If it weren’t for the unprecedented power of the Han Dynasty and the local counties and states were unable to match, perhaps Zhang Ran’s plan might even trigger a new round of “Seven Kingdoms Rebellion”, which will lead to turmoil in the world!
Chapter completed!