No one can disturb my retirement life in the Red Mansion

"Didn't the Queen Mother consider that as the princess's dowry?" Liu Bei couldn't help asking. There were many rumors about the Queen Mother making paper, and he remembered this unintentionally. When the Queen Mother refused this, he thought about it and covered his chest again. She prepared a dowry for her daughter, but didn't want her to marry him.

"It's just a joke! It costs money to run a workshop. How could the Queen Mother know that she could succeed? She just didn't want to cause trouble to the lord, so she used her private money and said it was the dowry for the princess. She wanted to make it difficult for the lord to stop her." Zhou Yu smiled and said it very cleverly.

This statement can be used for both offense and defense. When it comes to money, it is Guotai's private property. When it comes to technology, it is Dongwu's concern for the world. This, they have discussed at home.

Facing Liu Bei and the others, he looked at the old lady and said that she was righteous, but he also pointed out that this workshop was the private property of the old lady. She was afraid of causing trouble to the lord at the beginning, so she insisted on doing it herself. With such a noble character, how can you not pay the old lady? Even if you learn the technology, you can go there.

"If it succeeds, the Queen Mother will present the method of papermaking to the Marquis of Wu?" Why did Zhuge Liang still not believe it? You know, now there is a rumor in Jiangdong that the Queen Mother has made the formula public and anyone can learn it. What does this mean?
Although he made a mistake in calculating Liu Bei's marriage, he still claimed to understand Zhou Yu and knew exactly what Zhou Yu meant.

They didn't care about money. After all, a workshop was nothing compared to a million-man army. The key point was reputation. Just like when he knew that the famous doctor had come to Jiangdong, he immediately supported Liu Bei in inviting Zhang Zhongjing. Was he here to treat Liu Bei? Yes, but not much.

What he wanted was to follow up immediately and not let Liu Bei be left too far behind. As a result, everyone opposed it. He could have argued with reason at that time, because a national medical hall only cost a few dollars, and this money would not make a splash if it was put in the army. But he didn't, and at that moment, he suddenly didn't want to say anything.

As he thought, the doctors came to Wu, and Jiangdong suddenly became popular. The Dongwu, which used to be the least worth talking about, became a paradise. In the eyes of those scholars, this was the real goodness of a place. The Marquis of Wu practiced what it meant to "love the old as my own, and the young as my own." Liu Bei's previous good reputation was immediately robbed.

When papermaking was invented, not only did all the money in the world flow to Jiangdong, but the literary style of Jiangdong was also very elegant. Money was the least important of these two new measures. But in other aspects, it won the favor of the literati. You have to know that the pen is in the hands of the literati, and now the literati are all inclined to Dongwu.

Because of this, he was even less convinced that this was the idea of ​​the Queen Mother. How could an old lady like Wu Guotai come up with such a good idea that none of them could think of? If things went wrong, Sun Quan might have gotten a hidden master, and it was precisely because this master was unwilling to spread his fame and did not want to alert the world that he pushed the old lady out.

After all, the names of the Queen Mother and the Princess' dowry were very similar to the beauty trap last time. He felt that this was clear evidence that there were other people behind it.

"Queen Tai's wish is that everyone in the world has books to read and paper to write on. You can send someone to learn. Queen Tai has only made some improvements. Gong Jin has asked Queen Tai, and she said frankly that from pulping to the final paper baking, it was all the original recipe of Marquis Cai, and she also used experienced workers invited from various workshops. She just replaced the previous bark with bamboo according to the local conditions. So if Mr. Zhuge is interested, you can send someone to learn. Queen Tai will definitely tell you everything she knows." Zhou Yu said hurriedly.

"Very good, very good." Liu Bei smiled bitterly. He looked at Zhuge Liang again and shook his head gently. Zhuge Liang had talked about papermaking and printing. They all knew that papermaking was incidental, and the key point was that they had to print books. Although, at that time, they didn't know what printing was. But when Wuhou Paper came out, they knew the word "printing" and knew that they could print grids on such good paper. What does this represent? Anyone with a little common sense knows that they can print words at any time.

At that time, Zhuge Liang told Liu Bei that this game was too big to be recorded in history books. This had already changed history. So, Liu Bei finally understood what Zhuge Liang meant when he took the white paper and the printed red blessing characters from Zhou Yu. The trend of Dongwu was no longer something they could stop.

"Well, Queen Mother is truly virtuous. However, if every paper-making workshop in the world is run by a papermaker, then what will happen to the old lady's workshop?" Zhuge Liang laughed, but his heart was filled with torment. They could print grids and the word "Fu", so were they ready to print books?
"Queen Queen wants everyone in the world to have books to read and paper to write on. My Lord couldn't bear to disappoint Queen Queen's wish, so he allowed everyone in the world to learn. Of course, Queen Queen also hopes that everyone can participate, saying that there is progress only when there is competition. The more people join in, the better the paper will be, and eventually it will be available in thousands of households. Allowing even children from poor families to read and write is just the right way to open people's minds and make them understand reason and etiquette from now on."

Zhou Yu was still smiling, but he had already started cursing in his heart. Why did they make the formula public? Didn't Zhuge Liang have any idea? They were first forced to make the formula public because of the coercion of these nobles.

"What Queen Mother and Marquis Wu have done will benefit generations to come!" Liu Bei was immediately moved. Since he could not stop it, he relaxed. Thinking about the situation Zhou Yu had just described, he also sighed.

Although he always claimed to be a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, his family was very poor when he was born. Otherwise, people wouldn't often laugh at him for selling straw sandals. He was a typical example of a person whose ancestors were rich, but not only did he not catch up, but his parents also did not catch up. If he hadn't been a member of the aristocratic family, he really wouldn't have had the opportunity to read and write.

In the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei's kindness to the people came from the heart. And among the leaders of the Three Kingdoms, he was the only one who was really poor. Why was he so close to Zhang Fei and Guan Yu? Zhang Fei was a butcher and the richest among them, while Guan Yu committed a crime in his hometown in his early years and sold dates on the way to escape. So Guan Yu selling dates is still a classic, which shows that the three brothers of Taoyuan really came from the common people.

Compared with Cao Cao, the adopted son of a eunuch, and Sun Quan, who came from a warlord family, their journey was much more difficult, at least economically. It can be said that they really encountered obstacles everywhere. If he had not been the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, how could he stand out among the crowd?

Now Wu Guotai and Wu Hou made paper, no matter if it was for the purpose of "everyone in the world can read books and have paper to write on" as they said. But just based on this argument, he would support it. He turned to Zhuge Liang.

"Military advisor, choose the smart ones to learn from. Now that the Marquis of Wu is ahead, I, Jingzhou, cannot fall behind."

"My Lord, you are right." Zhuge Liang was still nervous and bowed to Liu Bei. (End of this chapter)