The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 572 Chang'an Zhigui
The main purpose of paper is to record text.

Before the appearance of paper, bamboo slips were mainly used.

The biggest reason why this thing can be popularized is because it is cheap.

However, the shortcomings are also obvious, that is, it is too heavy and takes up too much space, and there are not many recorded contents.

Silk is naturally also a good text carrier, but like parchment, it cannot be popularized due to cost issues, and can only be used for important purposes, such as imperial edicts.

The biggest advantage of paper is its low cost, and it can be popularized on a large scale even in an era of low productivity.

In terms of culture, this is the existence of poached eggs.

After first arranging the agricultural and industrial issues, Li Yunze began to move towards the cultural aspect.

The raw material of ancient papermaking is mainly bamboo.

In this era when the precipitation line moves northward and the temperature rises, Dahan does not lack bamboo.

In the scheduled paper mill, Li Yunze first arranged for manpower to dig a number of large ponds, soaking bamboo, especially young bamboo, in them.

It usually needs to be soaked for more than three months, and then the raw materials are taken out and heated and decomposed together with lime powder.

The next step is to crush the raw materials. You can use a stone mortar to powder the mortar, or you can directly use a grinder. The result is the same, and the raw materials are like clay.

Then there is filtration, and bamboo curtains are placed in the water tank, and the raw materials are attached to it as a thin layer.

These thin layers fall down to form the paper in its most primitive form.

The last step is to press out the water, and add an interlayer to dry. After dehydration, the authentic white paper is peeled off from the interlayer.

This is one of the most mature production techniques of ancient papermaking.

Naturally, it is incomparable with the large-scale industrial production in the modern world. In terms of the level of productivity at this time, it is absolutely like an explosion.

When the white paper was produced on a large scale, the entire Lunu City was a sensation.

In order to gain popularity in a short period of time, Li Yunze arranged for Zhao Yan and other palace scribes to copy Shang Jun's book and Han Feizi overnight.

The reason why the legalists were chosen was not because the legalists were gradually overthrowing Huang Lao's art, but because Li Yunze himself believed in this.

Although the scribes were tired of copying all night, they were very excited by the brand-new white paper, thinking that it was of inestimable use for cultural promotion.

However, those who deal with Confucianism and Huang Lao have some criticisms about Li Yunze's selection of legalist works.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, and all kinds of ideas really flourished under the bloom.

Even after experiencing the ravages of war at the end of Qin Dynasty, the schools of thought still survive tenaciously.

But everyone's situation is different.

At this time, the mainstream of the Han court was Huang Lao's art. The so-called Huang Lao's art refers to the thoughts of the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu, which can be regarded as Taoism.

It mainly advocates governance by doing nothing, that is, less management and less interference.

In the case of the decline of all industries in the early Han Dynasty, Huang Lao's art and the people's recuperation are indeed beneficial.

It's just that as the strength of the big man continues to increase, Huang Lao's technique cannot keep up with the trend.

At this time, it is the legalists who are rising rapidly, and they are the main force in the court.

As for the Confucianism that later ruled the world, it was difficult to even enter the imperial court because of offending the emperor of the Liu family.

However, the advantage of Confucianism is very obvious, because they respect the concept of "no distinction between teaching and learning". '

Simply put, as long as you want to learn, then I will teach you.

This is very different from other families who carefully searched for heirs and cultivated them, which led to the family's downfall.

Among the scholars in the world, Confucianism is estimated to account for more than [-]%.

This is the basis for being able to depose a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism in the future.

More than half of the cultural people in the world are Confucianists, who can respect if they don't respect him.

These white papers filled with articles were pasted on both sides of the city gate overnight, and they were so densely packed that it was dazzling.

After dawn, the caravans entering and leaving the city found such a conspicuous thing, and they could see the white paper full of handwriting when they took a closer look.

Businessmen are probably the most sensitive group of people in this era to technological innovation.

The smart ones immediately sensed the business opportunity and eagerly asked what it was.

After learning from the guarding sergeant that this was the white paper made by the king, they immediately rushed to the palace.

They are not waving money and silk and shouting 'heavy money to buy~~~'

They came to ask how much the item cost, and what the output was.

No matter how good the white paper is, can it be better than silk?

They will only buy if there is enough production and the price is reasonable enough.

In movies and TV dramas, when you travel back and invent something, you immediately ask for a lot of money to buy it. It can only be said that you look down on merchants.

Li Yunze arranged for Zhao Yan to deal with it.

First, he took everyone to the warehouse, and looked at the piles of white paper, which showed that there was no need to worry about the output.

Of course, don't even think about the craftsmanship.

However, in terms of price, it didn't mention it at all, but said that it could be given away to everyone for free, and let them take it everywhere, especially Chang'an City, to test the market reaction.

After getting the detailed market demand and consumption capacity of various places, you can come back to discuss cooperation with Dawang.

Simply selling them would be to despise the traversers too much.

As a time traveler, of course you have to use other people's caravans and business networks to make money for yourself.

Many caravans successively received different amounts of blank paper according to their respective strengths. Those who traveled to Chang'an City could receive more, and then sold them along the way to test the market.

As for Li Yunze himself, he was busy with spring plowing.

In the land of Hebei in the early Han Dynasty, it was possible to achieve two crops a year.

The so-called double crops or three crops a year does not mean that a single crop can be planted and harvested two or three times a year.

It means planting two or even three crops successively on a piece of land.

It doesn't mean that corn can be planted twice a year and harvested twice. The growth cycle is there.

Here in Zhongshan, the main crop is corn. After harvest, soybeans are usually planted, that is, bean, or hemp.

Last year Li Yunze planted alfalfa in the closed field of the palace, and the harvest was already finished, so it was time to grow the staple food.

During the spring plowing days, he personally went to the fields to lead the farmers to plow the land.

The farmers stared dumbfounded, watching the king with his trouser legs rolled up, swinging the iron hoe in his hand into a tornado, like a humanoid bull king, easily turning over a large piece of land in a short period of time.

The onlookers were dumbfounded.

Even the bravest cow king in the cattle circle, who can gift seven or eight cows with hundreds of millions of wealth in a day, is not so fierce.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Li Yunze, who was holding an iron hoe in both hands, called everyone, "Don't be stupid, and work quickly."

After nearly a year of domestication, a batch of large animals in the ranch prison have been domesticated enough to be farmed.

It's just that compared to the total number of fields in Zhongshan, it is still too small, so the main force is still manpower.

If the ox is paired with an iron plow, it is usually enough to turn over the ground once.

But relying solely on manpower, it basically needs to be turned over twice.

Spring plowing is not just turning over the fields, you have to lean over to pick up the stones in the fields and throw them away, you have to gather the gullies, you have to eradicate weeds, you have to plant the seeds carefully, you have to be busy with water conservancy irrigation, etc. etc.

Among them, turning the fields and water conservancy are the most energy-intensive.

Under normal circumstances, a strong man can serve [-] mu of land, which is considered to be the best. If several members of a family work together, it will be [-] mu of land.

This is not the kind of intensive cultivation.

The iron farm tools made by Li Yunze played a huge role in Zhongshan Country's spring plowing this time.

The method of taking things first and paying later allowed many people, especially those in remote areas, to use iron farm tools in advance, and the efficiency of spring plowing was greatly improved.

Li Yunze used the high-quality grain seeds brought by the modern world in the royal palace's sealed fields, and when the autumn harvest came, he would show it to the people of Zhongshan in the most intuitive way.

Li Yunze, who had plowed more than ten acres a day, went to the river to clean up before dark, got on his horse and prepared to return to the city.

On the way, I met Zhao Yan who came to report on the work. After hearing about the white paper, I skipped over the topic directly. Feed the livestock."

Under Li Yunze's urging, Zhao Yan, who had obviously improved, did some mental calculations and reported, "Your Majesty, last year the middle school harvested six or seven buckets of rice per mu, and there were a lot of plants in the middle school. Sinon estimated that there might be seven to eighty buckets per mu in the middle school." There are as many as ten thousand dendrobiums. Although this thing is not expensive, it may be used if there are too many

Insufficient degree? "

"Money is not the problem, the problem is that this king has money." Li Yunze waved his hand grandly, "There are a lot of miscellaneous silks in the palace treasury, and they are all used to buy beans."

"One more thing."

Li Yunze's words were not finished yet, "Spring plowing is busy, and the construction of water conservancy projects must also be speeded up, so as not to delay the farming season."

Hearing this, Zhao Yan said suspiciously, "Your Majesty, Lu Nu is not short of water."

Lunu is indeed not short of water. The Hutuo River and its many tributaries flow through the territory.

In Zhao Yan's view, most of the king's fields are in Lunu County, and they are basically good paddy fields on the shore, so there is not so much demand for water conservancy.

Li Yunze looked at him with pity, "Zhao Qing, you are the king's servant, not the magistrate of Lunu County."

"My lord has a water conservancy plan here, and the detailed process steps have been drawn up. You just follow it."

Zhao Yan, who said something wrong again, trembled in his heart, and hurriedly responded.

Caravans with a large number of blank papers set off to various places in Dahan, especially Guanzhong Chang'an.

After all, the core of this era lies in Guanzhong in Chang'an City.

If literati from all over the country want to make their mark, they have to go to Chang'an City to wait for the opportunity. They are the most potential consumer groups of white paper.

As the place with the lowest illiteracy rate, when the white paper appeared, the entire city of Chang'an became a sensation.

This brand-new text carrier is highly sought after as soon as it appears because it is light and beautiful, and can record more text at the same time.

In particular, the caravan also brought several copies of Shang Junshu and Han Feizi, which attracted the attention of the legalists in Chang'an City.

In order to compete for the booklet, they competed to bid, and even attracted Chang'an Zhigui.

As the Son of Heaven, Liu Qi naturally also learned of this matter.

Inside the Qingliang Hall, he held a volume of Shang Jun's book written on white paper in his hand.

"Zhang Qing."

Liu Qi shook the pages of the book in his hand, "I heard that this thing was made by Prince Sheng?"

"Return to the words of the Son of Heaven."

Zhang Ou saluted first, and then said, "I asked several caravans that came to Chang'an City to sell paper, and they all said that they all got it from Zhongshan Kingdom."

Liu Qi, who squinted his eyes, fell into deep thought, and asked again in a moment, "Last time I asked you to inquire about Li Guang's memorabilia, is there anything?"

"Return to the words of the Son of Heaven."

Zhang Ou's expression seemed embarrassed, "I sent three groups of people to Shangjun successively, questioned the captured Huns, asked the caravans that traveled with them, and even went to the original battlefield for field inspections."

Liu Qi snorted, "How?"

Zhang Ou, who looked hesitant, finally gritted his teeth and said, "I think that what Li Junshou said may be true."

The Qingliang Hall fell into silence, and the Emperor Liu Qi hadn't spoken for a long time.

I don't know how long it took before Liu Qi's voice sounded faintly.

"Zhang Qing."

"The minister is here."

"You go to Zhongshan Kingdom in person, and go in the name of winning the election of the queen for the prince. Go and have a look for Zhen Haosheng, and look carefully."

Zhang Ou, who couldn't help but tremble, saluted heavily.

"Here~~~"

(End of this chapter)