The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 312 Cao Jie wants to take the stone scripture away. Meng De takes the opportunity to sell white paper

Cao Jie sighed as he spoke. Yecheng didn't even have a flush toilet, and people had to use wooden buckets to go to the toilet. It was really backward.

The food doesn't taste good either.

"My husband is very kind to us. He can do whatever he wants. Wen Ji wants to compile the Book of Han, and father is also involved. Later, father will write down his affairs clearly so that I can take them back."

Cao Cao was a little nervous, "I am a traitor to the Han Dynasty. Everyone says so about me. I wonder what Wen Ji will write about it?"

"It's what it should be. Who is not a traitor to the Han Dynasty? My husband said that the Book of Han should be written truthfully. How future generations comment on my father is their business. My husband is still the Grand Marshal of the Han Dynasty. But Wen Ji said that my husband is a traitor, so let it be written like this!"

"The public can allow,"

"My husband said that the historian's writing should not be changed. Just write it as it is, without embellishment."

Cao Cao didn't believe it. Besides, Cai Wenji was Luo Yuan's wife, so she would definitely write something good about him. What should he do?
It is impossible to stop her. With Luo Yuan's support, Cai Wenji will definitely be able to repair the Han Shu. So he said, "How is your relationship with Wenji?"

"Very good!"

"Then give Ru and Wen Ji some hints and write something better for me."

Cao Jie rolled his eyes and said, "Father, why should you worry? Father has done Wen Ji a favor, how could Wen Ji not understand? Why worry!"

"This is a history book, shouldn't I have some expectations?"

Cao Cao felt a little nervous when he thought about compiling history. He had both merits and demerits in his life. He had made contributions to the world, but he had also brought harm to the world. He felt mixed emotions when he thought about it.

At this time, Cao Jie said, "Father, there are some stones in Luoyang that I want to take away!"

"What stone?"

"It's just an ordinary stone. It was made by Wen Ji's father back then, so it belongs to Wen Ji's family. Now it belongs to our Jiangling Luo family, so it's reasonable for me to take it away!"

Cao Cao was so angry that he was speechless. "You are talking about the stone scriptures, right?"

In the past, Cai Yong and others carved some Confucian books on stones and placed them at the gate of Luoyang Imperial College, which caused a sensation. When Cao Jie came to the north, Luo Yuan naturally thought of these stones.

These stones no longer exist in later generations!

Jiangling is right on the bank of the Yangtze River, and the cliffs near Chibi are flat. Luo Yuan planned to make a cliff carving that could be erected on the stone and could be destroyed later.

It’s okay for me to carve it on the mountain.

Thousands of years later, future generations will be able to see authentic Confucianism, rather than the castrated version.

Great revenge, being a king at home and a hegemon abroad, these are the true learning of the Han people, not the castrated version of Confucianism in later generations that only teaches people to be dogs.

Luoyang was destroyed after the war, but the stone tablet should still be there. If you want to take it away, you need Cao Cao's consent.

Cao Cao said: "It's not that I don't want to, but the stone tablet is missing. It must have been stolen by someone!"

"Then find it back," Cao Ji said, "all the northern nobles are under my father's command, who dares to hide it?"

The only ones who knew the meaning of the stone tablet and would steal it were the northern nobles.

But Cao Cao didn’t know where the stone tablet was, and no one could have imagined that someone would steal it, right?
Cao Jie was helpless, it was good to have some left!
Someone was immediately sent to Luoyang to bring the stone tablet back. Within a few days, the stone tablet arrived. It contained the Lu Shi, Gongyang Yang, Li Shi, Analects of Confucius, and Zhouyi.

Missing Spring and Autumn Annals and books!

The nobles in Yecheng suddenly remembered what these things were and were so excited that they thought Cao Cao was going to reopen the Imperial Academy.

But when I heard that Cao Ji was going to be taken away!
The gentry immediately objected, saying that this was a northern culture and they could not let Cao Jie control it.

Cao Jie directly ordered Xiong Ying to take the soldiers to guard the stone tablets, and anyone who dared to stop him would be killed.

"Prime Minister, you can't let Cao Jie take these stone tablets. They belong to the north."

"Prime Minister, this is something from the Han Dynasty."

It's alright if they didn't remember these things, but now that they remembered them, they belonged to them, so how could they allow Luo Yuan to take them away? What a joke!
The stone tablets are all filled with classics, and are good things that can cultivate countless nobles.

Everyone regrets it so much, why didn't they remember it?

Cao Cao was also speechless. No one wanted it on normal days, so you didn’t go looking for it. Now that Luo Yuan wants it, you want to snatch it away.

What do you mean?
Cao Cao didn't think much of this. He picked up a piece of paper, shook it, and almost smeared it directly on the faces of these nobles.

Now that we have paper, are books still a problem?

I don't need much, just copy the book.

"Is this paper?"

"Jiangling Paper!"

“Good stuff!”

Only Cao Cao and Cao Zhi had it. Many nobles knew about it, but had never used it.

Cao Cao had a solution long ago. He just asked people to copy down the scriptures on the stone and copy them later. This would be passed down to future generations.

But he showed the paper to these noble officials in order to sell it for money. One piece of paper cost ten thousand coins. It was up to them to buy it or not.

If you don’t have money, you can exchange it for food and cloth.

These nobles all have food!
Cao Cao became rich immediately and all the white paper was sold out in a blink of an eye.

"Ajie, do you know how to make paper?"

"I know it!"

"Ajie, you can tell me." Cao Cao happily pulled Caojie's hand, "White paper is very easy to sell. I exchanged a lot of military rations for it. If there is more, it will be even better!"

"Father wants white paper. Why should we trade it with Jiang Ling? Why should we produce it ourselves?"

Wouldn't that let Luo Yuan make money from me?

Cao Cao's face turned black. He couldn't keep this girl anymore. "Ajieru is my eldest daughter. How can you help Luo Yuan make money from me?"

"Does what father said make sense? I am Luo's wife, and the money father spends also belongs to my family." Cao Jie looked at Cao Cao, as if to tell him not to take advantage of her.

At most I can give you a discount, but if you want to learn the technology you have to pay. Of course it's best not to learn it and just purchase the finished white paper directly from Jiangling.

"Father, it's not easy to make white paper. It requires craftsmen to work day and night, and it consumes a lot of money. Father and husband have a relationship, so husband will definitely be able to give father a discount on white paper. In this way, everyone will benefit. Father can then sell it to those nobles, and everyone will be happy. Why do we have to make it ourselves?"

Besides, the craftsmanship is much more complicated, far superior to porcelain, and my father’s people may not be able to learn it!"

You just don't want to teach!

Cao Cao's face twitched: "A thousand coins per ticket, it's really too expensive."

"Father, one piece costs tens of thousands, why bother about a thousand coins?" Cao Jie took out a small abacus, and then moved it a little. Cao Cao stared and heard that Cao Jie had calculated how much money he had sold recently.

Cao Cao didn't want to talk anymore. His income was known to everyone and all his savings were gone.

"What is this?"

"Abacus, everyone in Jiangling knows how to do math. Father, do you want to learn it? I can teach you!"

Not interested in!
Cao Cao looked back at the abacus in Cao Jie's hand and took it away: "I'll take it to Xun Yu to have a look. I don't care about this kind of thing!"

Xun Yu was in charge of his internal affairs and food, and often dealt with numbers. However, when he saw an abacus, he didn't know how to use it. Cao Cao had no choice but to come back to Cao Jie to get the formula.

Xun Yu tried it and was delighted: "My lord, this is a good thing, it is a sharp tool for calculating!"

(End of this chapter)