[Three Kingdoms] After crossing, I opened the sick and weak main road line

Yanzhou, Changyi.

Ever since the Heishan bandits were defeated, Yanzhou has embarked on a road of reconstruction in full swing. Cao Cao and Sun Jian don’t know why they are rushing to build roads and dig water canals, but these are what they have to do. There is not much work to do, and it is perfect for them to do the work of building roads, digging canals and mending city walls, which usually requires civilian service.

It's just that they received orders a few days ago to encourage the people to raise more chickens and ducks, because people can't keep them alive, so why raise chickens and ducks?

Both of them couldn't figure out what the meaning of this chicken and duck was. They dragged Cao Hong and others to discuss it for several days, but they didn't discuss Zi Chou Yinmao.

The letter said that they would rather consume more food than let the people raise more chickens and ducks. This matter must be very important, and it will not be what Cao Ren said about raising more chickens and ducks to improve the food of the soldiers. unrealistic reason.

Cao Cao was busy farming, and Sun Jian was busy rectifying Yanzhou soldiers and horses. Both of them were so busy that they couldn't spare time to escort their families to Jizhou. Fortunately, there were many people available in various counties and counties. Cheng Yu and Cheng Zhongde worked harder than the two of them.

Cao Cao himself is from Yanzhou, and he knows more about the situation in Yanzhou than Sun Jian. While developing the farmland, he did not forget to recruit talents from various counties and counties as the state herdsman. Most of the secluded talents and Yanzhou aristocratic families who were recruited accepted the recruitment as officials. If not, they would not have time to discuss for several days about raising chickens and ducks.

There are eight counties in Yanzhou, and the easternmost Taishan County borders Qingzhou and Xuzhou. It has not been very peaceful. Sun Jian rectified Yanzhou's troops and was preparing to break through the Taishan bandits' lair in winter. When he received a letter from his son, he thought it was something.

Open it up and see, that's it?

The brat is only a little older, and there are still two or three years before he is crowned, so what are you doing with such an early word?

What's more, the lord is right in front of you, Yuan's mansion also has a talented and well-known scholar gentleman, who can't give him a word, send him a letter all the way, does he look like a cultured person?

Marquis Wu Cheng cursed and stuffed the letter into his arms, went back to the study, scolded the blind boy, let the messenger soldier rest, and took the letter back to the Yuan Mansion in Anguo.

It's not because he doesn't like reading and has no education that he doesn't want to choose characters for his son, but because the situation in Taishan County is special, he must deal with it with vigor. those grains.

The Taishan bandits say they are Taishan bandits, they don't just cause chaos in Mount Tai, even the mountains and seas of Qingzhou and Xuzhou are their sites of chaos. in the eyes.

Call them righteous thieves, they not only resist the government’s suppression, but also rob the people from time to time, call them evil thieves, and they often help the government suppress the yellow scarf thieves, people really don’t know what to say.

Wu Chenghou is a man who cherishes talents, and Zang Ba and his generals' performance in suppressing the Yellow Turban Bandits is really eye-catching, but their temper is too bad, and it takes a little effort to subdue them.

He doesn't like to play tricks with people. There is a difference between their soldiers and bandits. First subdue the people. If they can be recruited, they will be recruited. If they can't be recruited, they will continue to fight until they can be recruited. Anyway, it is only natural for officers and soldiers to fight robbers. They may tell each other to send them wine and meat.

Eliminate thieves for the people!It's just that popular!

The messenger waited for the horses to eat, drink, and rest, and returned to Zhongshan soon after not staying in Yanzhou. Sun Ce waited for his father's reply with great anticipation, and pulled Zhou Yu to guess what his word would be.

——Holding a single letter is called a slip, and compiling all the slips together is called a policy. 【1】

With his father's temperament, would he simply and rudely use bamboo and wood as words for him?

The little bully guessed enthusiastically, he couldn't wait to open his father's reply letter from the messenger soldier, but he was full of expectations that his father would give him a well-educated word.In the end, he only got a scolding meal from his father.

what? !

Zhou Yu saw that his aggrieved whole body was listless, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "What was written in the letter?"

I can't really call him Sun Wood in the future, can I?

"If you are uneducated, you are uneducated. Can you cover up the truth that you are uneducated by finding so many reasons?" Xiaobawang muttered and handed over the letter, expressing his contempt for his father's evasive behavior.

If it weren't for the fact that it's not easy to say the words by himself, he can also take them for himself.

After reading the letter, Zhou Yu comforted his unhappy friend dumbfoundingly, "The letter is right. We are in the Yuan Mansion. It is indeed a good idea to ask the lord for a letter."

"How can you take the initiative to speak about this kind of thing?" Xiaobawang said sullenly, with unhappy words written on the left face and unhappy faces on the right face. It is always the big men who take the initiative to give words to the promising juniors. How can the juniors take the initiative to ask for words? ?

He was originally laughed at by Zhang Wenyuan because of this matter, if he took the initiative to ask for words, that guy would definitely laugh at him even more after he knew about it.

Should he lose face?

The young man with a big face was resolutely unwilling to do such a thing that would make him lose face, he gritted his teeth and put away his father's letter, and pulled his little friend to promise not to tell what he saw just now, and then Then he went out aggressively and beat the wooden pile as his father.

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

Take revenge!

Zhou Yu watched him run away with a smile, glanced at the sky, got up and walked towards the council hall.

He himself is not in a hurry about getting characters, the elders in the family will make arrangements, and when the time comes, there will be characters, so he doesn't have to worry about it himself. As for his friend who is so impatient, he can't help it.

Anguo County is a small county in Zhongshan County. The place is not too big. The people live a comfortable life, as if they have never been invaded by war.

After living here for a few days, I got used to the ease of doing everything, and when I thought about Master Zhou's fragile body, I understood why he stayed here instead of going to Fucheng.

Compared with Fucheng, this place is indeed more suitable for recuperation.

The world is in chaos, and Jiangdong will not be able to escape sooner or later. The Zhou family can be regarded as a big family in Lujiang, but it will not be ranked in Jiangdong, let alone the entire Han family. If they want to keep the whole family, they can only rely on a certain force under.

If you want to entrust the safety of the clan to others, you must be cautious in choosing this person.

When he first came here, he didn't think too much, but he was afraid that Wu Chenghou would find an unreliable lord like last time. He didn't have to worry about having soldiers under his command, but he was really worried about letting his family move away.

Don't be afraid of [-], just in case, if he is with him, if something unexpected happens, for the sake of the Lujiang Zhou family, at least they can give them time to react.

Now that I think about it, it's just silly to be okay.

He is a junior, and he came out to travel to gain knowledge. It is best to choose the right person. Even if he chooses the wrong person, he will not implicate the family. At most, his own path is not so open.

And if you have friends with you, at worst, it will be a bit of a pain.

Zhou Yu walked around the corridor and came to the council hall, where there was only Xun Yu as usual.

They didn't notice it when they first came to the mansion, but after following Mr. Xun, they realized that there were many guests in the mansion in those few days. Master Zhou sought out wealthy businessmen from Xuzhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou and other places to try to bring the people The messy price of salt and food stabilized.

Stabilizing the price of salt and food, even the imperial court is not sure that it can be done in a short period of time. It is really rare for the state shepherd to be so determined.

It is better to have the people in your heart than to have no people, and to win the hearts of the people is far better than other princes.

Sun and Cao's family settled down in Zhuangzi, and life soon got on the right track.

Mrs. Ding and Mrs. Wu went together to visit the female family members of the Xun family. They were not messy, and they quickly became acquainted with each other after going back and forth.

Cao Ang, Sun Quan, etc. were young, and Mrs. Ding and Mrs. Wu were in charge of studying and practicing martial arts. There were not many opportunities to be mischievous. Zhang Liao quarreled with each other in full swing.

That is to say, Lu Bu is not here these few days. If Lu Feng is here first, he is afraid that he will go to do big things with him at the expense of losing face.

The Jiangdong tiger was full of courage back then, but now the tiger cub is better than Lan, more courageous than his father.

Zhang Liao found that this kid was much more fun than Zhao Zilong. When he and Zhao Zilong were training recruits, that kid was very serious about his words and actions, which made it difficult for him to bully honest people sometimes.

This kid Sun Ce is different, I can only say that he has the style of his father, he is even better than him when he is a bastard, and when he meets an evenly matched opponent, he will never be bored during training.

And the young future governor of Eastern Wu Jiang Zuo Zhoulang, after meeting Yuan Huan alone the next day, was sent by the unscrupulous lord to handle official duties with Xun Yu.

Being young is not a problem, with Xun Yu who is prudent and prudent to take care of everything, even if there is a small mistake, it is fine, not to mention that this is the talented Zhou Lang, even if he is still young, there is almost no possibility of making mistakes.

Wei Ji, Lu Su and others signed the alliance and left one after another. Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping went to Hedong County with Wei Ji. Their business focused on horses, and they couldn't get much salt for a while.

There was Gongsun Zan in Youzhou and they didn't dare to go, and the Yellow Turban bandits in Qingzhou didn't dare to go until they were calmed down. Yuan Huan thought for a while and asked them to go to Hedong with Wei Ke to buy salt and then sell it to the grassland.

Compared with the prefects and herdsmen of the states who hold the military and political power, it is obvious that the deterrent force of the imperial court is smaller. Wei Ke is a stable person and has a lot of research on the way of merchants. Hedong is rich in salt and iron, so it is perfect for him to supply salt to Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping .

Seeing that winter is coming, the government offices in various places are also free. Yuan Huan spends most of his time in a warm room, arranging the slips until he loses his temper. Whenever he is too tired to move, he misses those cheap and Paper books that are easy to carry.

He is more fragile than Guo Jia now, his arms will tremble if he holds too many bamboo slips, and the little girl is stronger than him, but the silk cloth is too expensive, the paper suitable for writing is also very expensive, and it is not easy to preserve, neither of them are suitable Used a lot.

Papermaking is too laborious, and even the imperial palace cannot use it as it pleases. When it is really not suitable to use bamboo slips, silk cloth is more popular than paper.

Cai Lun used tree bark, broken fishing nets, and hemp rope to make paper to save costs, but that kind of paper was not suitable for writing, so he didn’t use much. If he wanted to get rid of the predicament of using bamboo slips, the first thing he had to do was not to make money, but to make paper .

If the level of papermaking is not improved, no matter how much money he has, it is useless not to be able to buy paper.

Simply put, the things to be done this winter have already been arranged. Lu Bu and Gao Shun went to the northern part of Jizhou and bordered Youzhou to arrange defenses, and they would be back in half a month at most. Xi Zhicai and Zhao Yun went to Nanyang to prevent Yuan Gonglu from arousing public anger. His life was at risk, Cao Cao and Sun Jian were engaged in construction in Yanzhou, and the prescription for fine salt was handed over. He asked Xun You to call craftsmen to Yecheng.

Things were arranged in an orderly manner, and when he was free, he could just think about how to get out the paper suitable for writing.

A large part of the reason why the aristocratic family was able to monopolize knowledge was that it was not easy to disseminate knowledge. The bamboo slips were too heavy, and a few words could not be written on a single slip. It was very inconvenient to copy or study.

The articles written on the bamboo slips are concise, which probably has something to do with the fact that there are too many words and they cannot be moved together.

Students of later generations can carry a schoolbag when they go to school. Today’s students who want to go to school can carry a book slip because they have extraordinary physical strength. It is not easy to read a lot of books.

The slips are all family heirlooms, and no teacher is willing to open his study room for others to read except for his own heirs and favorite students.

If the paper used for writing can be made so cheap that most people can afford it, this so-called cultural monopoly will be broken soon, but doing this kind of thing now is tantamount to putting yourself on the opposite side of all the aristocratic families. If you don't want to be attacked by groups, it is best not to rush to play with fire.

In the eyes of outsiders, taking out the recipe of coarse salt and refining it only damages the interests of the Yuan family, and the people of other aristocratic families can follow suit, but breaking the cultural monopoly will damage the foundation of all aristocratic families.

The lineage of the family is sometimes more stable than that of the dynasty, like the descendants of Confucius, no matter when they have a detached position in the hearts of scholars, the common people rebelled and overthrew the court. It can be said that the court committed evil on its own. However, no matter how high the status of the Yuan family in Runan is, its destruction will only happen overnight.

I can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry. Paper is different from salt. Even if I try a cheap method, I can’t sell it at a low price. The safest way is to only use it for the people in my family, and he is not sure how to resist the counterattack of the whole world. Before, the lifeblood of daring to touch the family was to play with firecrackers.

It's not easy for him to keep his life, and he can't fall on it casually.

Yuan Huan cherished his life very much. After pouring so much bitter medicine every day, he spared his life to feel sorry for the suffering he had suffered. In this case, it is reasonable to make his life more comfortable.

Bamboo can be made into bamboo slips, and it can also be made into paper. It is hard to find other things in cold weather, and bamboo that grows fast and does not pick the environment is everywhere.

Yuan Huan couldn't stand the cold outside, so he could only stay in the room and let the steward do as he ordered. Soak the bamboo until it softened and hammered off the outer shell, then fished out the outer shell and boiled the rest with lime, and pounded it after softening. crushed and then mixed with water to make a pulp.

He can only tell the general process, and the specific operation has to be estimated by the craftsmen. After the pulp is blended, the remaining steps are mastered by them. As long as the first batch is successful, it is only a matter of time before changing the color and improving the feel. .

Given the general process, Yuan Huan thought they would be stuck in the step of mixing pulp, but they never expected that they would get stuck in the first step. There are indeed a lot of bamboos used to make bamboo slips. The problem is that those bamboos are soaked in water. It doesn't soften at all for a few days.

In the past, paper was not used in their house, and shovels and shovels were more common, so there were blacksmiths, potters and other craftsmen in the house, but no one knew how paper was made. At this time, it was basically inherited from the father. It has been passed down from generation to generation, and in the end, a few craftsmen who have made paper for generations were found from Fucheng, and they were asked to work with those craftsmen in the house who were not professionally qualified. This finally solved the problem of bamboo not being soft after soaking.

Using broken fishing nets, hemp rope, bark and other things to make paper is first of all to soften these things. It is estimated that it will take a year or so to soak in water. The simple and rude way is to start cooking directly.

Cook it once and then cook it again, seventy or eighty times, until the bamboo becomes soft.

At first, Yuan Huan naively thought that he would soon be able to replace the bamboo slips with soft and white paper, but the cruel reality told him that at this speed, he was lucky to be able to use paper by this time next year.

Whether it is boiling bamboo, hammering bamboo, boiling bamboo or mixing pulp, each step takes a long time. If it is an assembly line work, as long as the raw material bamboo is sufficient, a large amount of paper can be produced every day, but everything is difficult at the beginning.When he couldn't develop to work on the assembly line, he could only wait patiently.

Zhang Liao came out of the workshop with a disheveled face, took a few breaths of fresh air, and felt that he was about to be suffocated to death in the workshop. The lord reports the situation.

It is not a good thing to have a too sensitive nose, if you stay for a while, others will disappear.

The charcoal basin was lit early in the room, and you could feel the heat when you opened the curtain and walked in. Zhang Liao drank two glasses of water, told the progress of the workshop today, and then lowered his voice a little mysteriously, "My lord, you Have you noticed that Ah Ce has been a little too quiet recently?"

Yuan Huan was thoughtful, "Indeed, Ce'er hasn't been to the main courtyard for several days."

Zhang Liao grinned, trying not to make the smile on his face so obvious, "I know why, because Ah Ce said a few days ago that he would be able to take care of himself when he grew up. Cheng Hou was scolded."

As he said that, he imitated Sun Jian's appearance, and vividly relayed to their master, "You brat is not smart when you should be smart. Why are you looking for father when the master is by your side? Your father and I are busy dealing with the bandits in Taishan County. I don’t have time to pull your hair to pick out characters for you, and it’s not too late to worry about it when you marry a wife.”

Yuan Huan: ...

Like what Wu Chenghou could say.

However, why didn't he know that the guy in front of him had such abilities?

Zhang Wenyuan, Zhang Wenyuan, how many surprises do you have that no one else knows?

Zhang Liao finished the performance with a lot of voice and emotion. After the performance, he quickly played the show, leaned over and said in a low voice, "That kid accidentally leaked it yesterday. Young people want to save face. My lord, please don't say that I said it. Otherwise, he will chase me and fight again."

Only Sun Ce is okay, he is also a fierce general who has been killed on the battlefield after all, and he can't even beat a half-grown boy.

But that kid is too thick-skinned. If he can't beat him alone, he can just find a helper. It doesn't matter if he can find someone who can be beaten. That guy actually brought his younger brother to interfere with his attention. Is it plausible?

The author has something to say: Sun Ce: My name is wit!

------------

[1] "Zuo Zhuan Preface"