The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

It has been nearly 50 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, but until today, it has encountered an embarrassing problem-the talent gap in the Han Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger.

When the Han Dynasty was founded, there was no shortage of talents, and it could even be said that it was rich. However, in troubled times, heroes will emerge. There are too many heroes, which will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the emperor.

To put it bluntly, Rabbit Dead Dog Cooking is also based on the fact that there are enough offensive ministers and there are substitutes.Just one or two can be used, you see what the emperor can do, no matter how scruples you have, you have to hold a knife in your chest—forbearance!

However, with the passage of time, the old hero passed away, and the people who were eligible to sit in the court changed from great heroes to minor heroes, and finally to the sons or collaterals of the heroes.

Just when Emperor Jing wanted to prepare a future auxiliary minister for his children, he suddenly found that he had nothing left to do.

The son of a hero is the limit, he can no longer be the grandson, right?

The reason why he has no ministers to use today is not entirely in Emperor Jing himself, but the emperors of the entire Han Empire must bear the blame.

After Liu Bang founded the country, rebels broke out everywhere. He was either on the way to suppress the rebellion, or on the way to toss and abolish the prince.

Later, Emperor Hui of the Han came to the throne, and the Renyi incident occurred in the same year.Since then, he has been in office for seven years without any achievements.Afterwards, almost all government affairs were controlled by Empress Lu. After her collapse, Empress Lu even more grandly wanted to change the world's surname.

Cultivate talents?No, she was busy killing the Liu family's clan and eradicating dissidents to ensure that it would be able to ascend to the throne smoothly.

After that, Emperor Wen vigorously developed the people's livelihood, and lightly paid and paid less, finally made the sky of the bloody Han Dynasty clearer.During this period, he faced the pressure of the Huns going south many times, so he naturally had no time to pay attention to the issue of talents.

After Emperor Jing came to the throne, he followed in his father's footsteps, and was influenced by his mother. He worshiped inaction to support the people, and once again reduced the burden on the people and reduced the penalty. Finally, he was freed a little bit and wanted to take power, but it triggered the "Seven Kingdoms Rebellion" ".

Until today, when he decided to establish the crown prince first, he suddenly realized that there was a shortage of talents in the court of the great man.

Now that the crown prince has been established, there is no reason not to establish a secondary government. In the end, even if he combs with a comb, he can only pull out three melons and two dates.

It's so pitiful.

The other two were sent to Liu Shengna by his momentary mistake, and he has no reason to pull them back because they are doing well now, otherwise they would not just be revenge for the prince.

He intentionally wanted to select talents, but he also found that there are few ways to select talents nowadays, and almost all of them are controlled by the clan.

And what Liu Qi wants most is to reduce the traces of the clan's presence in the court.

What's more, the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion has just been put down.Emperor Jing was at a time when he was most suspicious of these princes and kings. Under such an environment, he naturally could not use and dared not use the officials they elected.

Since you dare not use it after pushing it up, you can only cultivate it yourself.

This brings up another old problem—the old Liu’s family were all from civilian backgrounds, Empress Lu was also from ordinary backgrounds, the courtiers of the Manchu court were also relatives, and most of them were from military commanders.Regarding how to cultivate talents, everyone's eyes are darkened, and they don't know anything about it.

But there is a reason that Emperor Jing is still very clear. If the cost of studying can be reduced and the weight reduced, more and more scholars will appear.

If there are many scholars, there will be more sensible people, so there will be talents.

"So this thing still needs to be sold as cheaply as possible." Emperor Jing said.

Little Liu, who blinked his black eyes, tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly asked a question: "Father, brother Sheng said this is only made of rice stalks, so can it only be made of rice stalks? Can it be made of grass?" Do it? If we can use grass, the son can grow some grass in the palace, and in the future he will be able to be self-sufficient like a mother weaving cloth to make books for daddy!"

Liu Qi's eyes lit up.

A few days later, Xia Anran received a letter from his father.

As he expected, his father was keenly aware of the importance of papermaking and questioned him on various trivial matters.

In the end, his emperor father named the paper Zhongshan Paper.But at the same time, the emperor ordered him to temporarily not allow him to sell these papers.The imperial court wanted to make it a monopoly to control the price. Of course, as compensation to his son, Liu Xie directly exempted Zhongshan Kingdom from donation fees for the next ten years.

Contribution?

Xia Anran thought for a long time outside, and finally remembered the existence of such a thing.

That's right, although the princes and ministers hold the taxes and fees of the emperor's fief, and can mint their own coins to collect taxes, but at the same time they also need to pay a certain fee to the court.

——Of course, whoever pays too little... will still get the top spot.

But after he inquired, he found out that since the previous order to cut down the vassal was issued, in order to protest, in that year, except for the sons of Emperor Jing, none of the other uncles in the vassal state had offered to the court.

In addition to this year's Seven Kings Rebellion, it is even more impossible to have income during the war. In fact, the court has not received donations from princes and kings for two years.

As the king of Zhongshan who just became a feudal clan this year, he certainly doesn't have to pay this fee this year.If the emperor hadn't mentioned it, he really wouldn't have remembered it.

Xia Anran pulled her fingers, and after thinking for a long time, she found that it was not a good deal for her.

He didn't focus on the ten-year exemption, what he cared about was the meaning of this decree.

Although it seems that it is just a reward for the son, the implication is that the emperor has not forgotten the obligation you should fulfill.

From the beginning to the end, he never ordered that the vassal king could not hand in the offering.

To put it simply, this copy is not for Xia Anran to read, but a copy for others to beat.

An emperor can't just tell the people below: I have no money, you should pay the protection fee.You can only use this tactful way to urge, as for not being able to catch the leader, it depends on personal nature.

Xia Anran, who accidentally saved a sum of money, quickly put the matter aside.Although the emperor exempted him from this expense, as his son and grandson, it would be too embarrassing if he really had to go to Beijing empty-handed during the Chinese New Year next year.

Some money cannot be saved.

Save a little money, but lose a lot of money.

Xia Anran was clear about this matter.

When replying to the letter, Xia Anran left [-]% of the paper made during these years, and the rest was taken to Chang'an.Since his father wanted to turn the paper-making business into a state-run business, Xia Anran certainly wouldn't touch him.What's more, the old man just told him not to sell paper, but he didn't say he couldn't sell books.

Clever babies will be able to take advantage of loopholes!

If it was put before, Xia Anran might still feel distressed, but now that he is holding porcelain clay, which is still white porcelain clay, he doesn't care about this loss at all.

Now he does not intend to vigorously develop the paper industry in Zhongshan, because papermaking still pollutes water quite a lot.Today's small-scale papermaking worth mentioning, this pollution can be purified by nature.

But if his father wants to supply large-scale papermaking across the country, he will not be able to wait for the paper to turn white naturally.If you want to artificially decolorize, you have to add alkali. At that time, such alkaline water in rinsing will definitely have an impact on the environment.

Although with today's manufacturing technology, it can't match the production capacity of modern paper mills, and the pollution to the environment will not be so serious.

But it can be avoided, and it must be avoided.

Zhongshan country is the main agricultural production area, and their place is upstream. If the water is polluted, the crops in the entire North China Plain may be affected.

Now the idea of ​​the superior is in line with his wishes, but he also has to mention this to his father.

Paper mills must not be concentrated in one place, otherwise it will easily have a huge impact on the local ecology.In an agricultural country, the consequences of ecological changes are likely to harm a large area.

Not to mention anything else, saline-alkali land is inevitable, and it will also bring about a reduction in fishery production. The reduction in crops along the river will naturally lead to soil erosion.

The official plan is not terrible, what is terrible is that if someone makes paper privately... the private industry will not take too much into consideration.

Just this time and again, it has entered late autumn.

After paying the tax and grain for this year, the farmers planted a wave of vegetable seeds while the weather was still warm, and then happily started the cat winter mode.

The weather is good this year. Although wars have occurred in other countries, they have not affected Zhongshan.

The new ruler has not issued a tax increase order so far. Everything is done according to the original system. The old local hooligans have all disappeared, and the farmers who have no one to collect protection fees and no additional expenses feel happy.

Moreover, some time ago, the owner of the Zhongshan Kingdom bought their old straw and made them a small profit. Of course, in this process, it was the buying and selling who made a lot of money.

After asking clearly that the government officials in charge of the acquisition will still collect the straw next year, everyone has been much safer in dealing with the straw this year.

For the first time, straws that had been seen as weeds felt respected.

Because what Xia Anran wanted to buy was the old whitish straw, so everyone had an idea and spread it out flat when disposing of the excess straw, so that it could withstand the wind and rain.

The wind here is not strong all year round, and it is a place with zero wind resources.

These straws are spread out flat, without any heavy weights, to ensure that they will not be blown away under normal circumstances.

Those with a flexible mind followed closely to buy straw from the villagers, took it back and processed it in the open space by themselves.

Although the current selling price is relatively low, far lower than the price charged by the government officials, but after all, this is the immediate benefit. Who knows whether the little king of Zhongshan Kingdom will charge these things in the coming year?Selling early also reduces risk.

Therefore, there are not a few farmers who choose to sell the straw in advance.

Of course, there are also some families who insist on not buying, and when they come to lobby to lobby, they hold their necks and say: We don't care, we just trust our Highness.

The business of rice stalks and all kinds of rumors came and went, and there was a lot of trouble throughout the autumn.

The environment here is closed, the information is not clear, and the entertainment measures are very lacking. Whenever there is any new news, they have to repeat it over and over again. The winter can be regarded as adding some color.

The author has something to say:

The talents of the Han Dynasty showed a tendency to wither at the end of Emperor Jing, so in the early years of Emperor Wu, he was not used, and he was deceived by the idiot uncle!

His uncle Tian Fu was really talented, and he knew that he was not talented enough, so he memorized a lot of interview materials before recruiting talents, and as a result, the young Emperor Wu thought he was really a talent.

Hahahaha yesterday you were all talking about how to come up with something that can replace rubber, and you gave the author Jun Anli Eucommia gum and rubber grass.

By the way, I saw this term in the "North and South Grocery" covered in the newspaper wall, and there was a mention of Eucommia tree in it. At that time, I also said: Wow!It can still be like this, but I did some research and found that...

Dissolve it with sodium hydroxide and extract it with petroleum ether

Sodium hydroxide is better, how about petroleum ether? ? ?

Let's not talk about how to prepare the solution for extraction, just after the extraction...

this

It's not so much rubber as it is plastic.

It is a hard plastic with no elasticity. Although it is called glue, it is not the same as what you think. Of course, it is no problem to use it to make shoe soles and wheels. After all, this mainly needs to be durable, and Eucommia glue is very resistant to pressure and explosion. .

The only downside is that there is no flexibility.

Of course, after modern vulcanization processing, it can be changed to increase elasticity, but vulcanization... The author, a liberal arts student, thought that I couldn't make this condition in ancient times!It’s not enough to fume with sulfur! !Thieves complicated.

And it still seems to have to be mixed with rubber to be elastic.

Just to close the gap... It's too wasteful, there are other alternatives (speaking softly) I will study and study when I want to make a bicycle, tires, etc. someday.

And the original species of this thing is in the Huaihe River generation in Qinling Mountains, not in the north! !You have to use your brain when you use it!

I really don’t know rubber grass, and after researching it, I found out sadly that Xia Miao can’t find this grass in terms of geographical conditions, and the one that can be extracted in China is guayule... But, Xia Miao’s territory does not have this Grass.

So I can only give up!

It’s too much, does the Forbidden City want us to live in Beijing?I have 34 to see next year, biting my finger

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