The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 58 New Paper
Li Chongyi's temperament is also to say what to do.Pulling Xuan Shijing, he went out, found Qin Ying and the three who got together, and told about Xuan Shijing's desire to go to Zhuangzi, the three of them who were already idle and boring hit it off with Li Chongyi, and immediately told their book boy Go and lead the horse and wait at the gate of the palace.

After several people quickly returned to the Hongwen Library to sort out their books, they walked outside the palace gate.

Now that the master gave the order, the bookboys naturally did not dare to be negligent, and their movements were very quick. When Xuan Shijing and others walked to the gate of the palace, the schoolboys of each family were already waiting at the gate of the palace with their horses.

Everyone got on their horses. Li Chongyi first put the sworn gold on the saddle, then turned over and sat behind Xuan Shijing. Ling Xuan Shijing was surprised that Qin Ying could ride a horse alone.

Qin Ying seemed to have a sense, looking at Xuan Shijing, seeing the expression on Xuan Shijing's face, he probably knew what he was thinking, and said: "Brother Shijing, brother, I am six years old. Let’s start riding.”

Heh, if you want to learn how to ride a horse, it will take two years, Xuan Shijing secretly sighed, now Li Chongyi can only take him to Zhuangzi on horseback.

Along the way, there were angry horses in fresh clothes. Although it was not the season of spring, a few people rode their horses and whipped their whips, and they still ran with a bit of spring breeze and horseshoe aura. It may be that the boredom in Chang'an City this winter really made these The master who couldn't rest was bored.

This is Xuan Shijing's first time "riding a horse". She nestled in front of Li Chongyi, and felt the spring breeze hit her face, and the whistling wind sounded in her ears, and the scenes on both sides slowly fell backwards. It's just that the degree of bumping is a bit unbearable. Xuan Shijing, who has tender arms and legs, just ran to the outskirts of Chang'an City, Xuan Shijing felt that his buttocks were bumped a little uncomfortable. If he ran to Zhuangzi, his little The body is not falling apart.

After running for a while, Xuan Shijing felt a little tired, and simply leaned on Li Chongyi's body. Although he was a little embarrassed, it was better than suffering.

Li Chongyi looked down at Xuan Shijing who was leaning on him, and said, "Little Jing is a little tired?"

"A little bit, I feel a little pain in my buttocks." Xuan Shijing replied.

"Although you are too young to ride a horse now, you should master the essentials of riding a horse politely. You can feel the rhythm of the horse's running, and follow the rhythm of the body, and it will be much easier." Li Chongyi taught Xuan Shijing Some basic movements of horseback riding.

According to Li Chongyi's words, Xuan Shijing experimented a bit, and sure enough, the violent jolting feeling just now was relieved a lot, and her buttocks didn't feel as hot as before.

About half an hour later, Li Chongyi told Xuan Shijing that he had already reached the boundary of Dongshan County. Xuan Shijing looked around and could vaguely see the outline of the village. He didn't expect to ride a horse so fast. It took a full hour and a half.

Not long after, Xuan Shijing and his party arrived at Zhuangzi, led the people to the courtyard of the fiefdom, and tied the horse to the horse-tying stone at the gate of the courtyard.

Seeing the people coming and going in and out of the yard, Xuan Shijing knew that this was the start of the papermaking workshop, and looking inside, Gao Jun was directing the workers to go about their business and tidy up the mess.

There were so many people coming at the gate of the courtyard, which also attracted Gao Jun's attention. Looking outside, it turned out that it was his Lord Hou and several young masters who hurried out to greet him.

"Little Marquis, why are you here?" Gao Jun walked out of the courtyard door and greeted him: "Gao Jun has met you young masters." Gao Jun clasped his fists and saluted when he saw Qin Ying, Chai Lingwu, Cheng Huailiang and Li Chongyi behind Xuan Shijing.

"There is no homework in Hongwen Hall in the afternoon. I have nothing to do, so I came here. Where is Uncle Zhong?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"Uncle Zhong is with His Royal Highness King Wei inside." Gao Jun replied.

"Why is His Royal Highness King Wei also in this village?" Chai Lingwu asked in surprise.

"Don't stand at the door, let's go in and say, Gao Jun, is there a clean room in this yard?"

"Yes, everyone, come with me." Gao Jun turned around and invited everyone into the yard, and followed them to lead the way.

To be honest, Xuan Shijing didn't know how big his yard was. When he came to the fief years ago, he just took a rough look. The yard was still very dilapidated at that time. After a period of repairs, it looks much better now, at least not Unmanaged and dilapidated like before.

As Gao Jun stepped into the yard, Gao Jun led the way and explained to Xuan Shijing the current work progress of the paper workshop.

"Young Lord, this yard is quite big. The paper mill occupies the southern yard. There is more sunlight and the space is wide enough. Some old houses have been pushed and remodeled. Because the construction started in the first month, so we went to Now, everything is ready, as soon as the craftsmen and materials arrive, we can start working immediately, and now His Royal Highness King Wei and several craftsmen are researching new paper-making materials."

A new paper material?It seems that there is no need to say it yourself, Li Tai has also explored this aspect, he is indeed a talent, no wonder His Majesty Li Er loves him so much.

"Take us to see His Royal Highness King Wei." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes, everyone, this way please." Gao Jun continued to lead the way, leading everyone to the door of a room, and knocked on the door lightly: "Your Highness, the young master and the young masters are here."

Li Tai's voice came from the room: "Shi Jing is here? Come in quickly."

After receiving Li Tai's instructions, Gao Jun gently opened the door and invited Xuan Shijing and his party in.

"Young Master, you and the young masters are just going to go in, the younger one will go to work first." Gao Jun said.

"Okay, you go." Xuan Shijing replied, and took the lead to walk into the room.

After Gao Jun waited for everyone to enter the room, he gently closed the door, turned and left.

After entering the room, Xuan Shijing looked it over. The room was quite big, but it was a bit messy. There were not many things in it, but they were all wood, straw, bamboo, and some straw and other paper-making materials. There was a large wooden low table with futons around it. Li Tai, Zhong Zishuo, and a few people in their 30s dressed in coarse cloth shorts were sitting together discussing something. Seeing Xuan Shijing and others coming in, those people I hurriedly got up to see you.

"Cao Min pays homage to Lord Hou."

"No courtesy, no politeness." Xuan Shijing knew that this was a papermaker that Zhong Zishuo had found from Chang'an City.

The people behind them sat down around the wooden table after some courtesies with Li Tai. They were curious as to what Xuan Shijing was messing around with, and why His Royal Highness King Wei sat in such a messy place. , regardless of status, sitting with a group of craftsmen.

"Your Highness, what's the result?" Xuan Shijing asked, judging from the materials they found in this room, I'm afraid they have already passed some tests.

"I discussed with several masters. The book said that Cai Hou improved the raw material of this paper, so we started to modify it from this material. After several experiments, we made good progress. See Shijing This." Li Tai picked up a few pieces of paper pressed under the wooden ruler, and handed it to Xuan Shijing.

Xuan Shijing spread several sheets of paper on the table in front of him, carefully looked at it, the texture and color was the last one, picked it up and inspected it carefully, and found that it was still a bit rough.

"At present, the most ideal one is this one. The color is whiter, and the softness is much stronger than hard yellow paper." Xuan Shijing said.

(End of this chapter)