Chapter 537: Strange Plants

"I don't seem to have seen any of these saplings, what are these things they plant?"

The castle keeper was the one who was the most qualified to speak among those present. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Because he was in charge of the construction of this area, he often had to arrange food and pay for the soldiers, and he was the most frequent among all the people present.

It is different from people who live in the mainland and can't get out of the yamen. Most of the affairs of the yamen were entrusted to his deputy, and he spent most of his time wandering outside.

Even during the time he was walking, he wrote down some records of what he had seen.

He himself was a painter, and in this era, ink painting had not yet become popular, and many paintings were made of different materials.

Among them, many paintings exist only for a short moment.

For example, in the sand, they can take a twig and paint.

When you are always outside, there are naturally no conditions.

When he saw something, he wanted to record it, often by drawing a form on the sand with a branch, and then drawing on the bark with tiles or blades.

When he returned, he would use his pen to free up the cloth.

In the early days, he didn't do much painting, but since a few years ago, things like paper have become popular in the nearby city of Jinmai. Through the rail transit, he was able to send people to Jicheng to buy these papers.

The paper is very light and thin, send someone to buy it, and you can buy a lot at once.

And it is said that there are regulations on the side of Jinmai City, and according to the distance, each place has different maximum price regulations, so paper in Jicheng is only four times more expensive than Jinmai City.

And paper is a cheap thing in Jinmai City.

It is said that the people of Jinmaicheng use paper to wipe their buttocks even when they go to the toilet, which is extremely extravagant and wasteful.

However, the price of paper is really not expensive in Jinmaicheng.

Now, ten pieces of paper can be sold for only a penny in Jinmai City.

In Jicheng, it is four times more expensive, and ten pieces of paper are only four cents.

A piece of paper, about the length of an adult's arm and half an arm's width. If you want a larger piece of paper, the price of that piece of paper will be four times greater. The price of paper increases exponentially with the size of the paper.

So a new industry has emerged, paper paste.

Through the technology of pasting paper, it is also possible to make the paper bigger. Of course, there will inevitably be problems in the corners and corners.

And it's relatively easy to break

Because the original paper is thicker and thicker the size. Make the paper less likely to break.

But where is the price gap. Unless it's going to be used where it matters.

Otherwise, the big ones who use large papers, the military, will still choose to use paste paper.

For ordinary people, four cents is a few days' worth of food. But for them, there really is nothing

Even the cheapest linen cloth is much cheaper than cloth.

The people who peddle paper in Jicheng do not dare to sell more than four times, and if Jinmaicheng knows about it, they will cut off their business.

Don't think that Jinmaicheng is in charge of the merchants in Jicheng, but they only sell paper to places that can be reached by rail transit.

I heard that the price of paper in Chang'an is much more expensive, but Jinmaicheng did not go to compete with them for business.

Because of Liu Wu, the half-brother of the current crown prince of Chang'an Paper.

This brother with the same mother is not the same as the gold content of ordinary brothers.

I heard that none of the princesses in Jinmai City dared to offend each other.

Having said all this, although the castle guard is not well-known, it does have a good learning. It's different from the general bun castle guard.

He is a true aristocratic son who is both civil and military.

He has a deeper understanding of the crops that the Han can eat than others.

He had a strange feeling about these half-sized shrubs.

These shrubs seem to be more than just ornamental species.

Moreover, even if it is an ornamental tree, he has never seen it in the vicinity.

"What's wrong with these saplings?" For people who don't know trees, all trees, that's the same thing.

The leaves may change color, and the flowers may be large or small, and the leaves are green most of the time.

Some fruits can be eaten.

However, most of the fruit on the tree is dry and unpalatable. Only some of the delicious food was brought back and cultivated.

But what the difference in their appearance is, they can't say.

There are also very few books dedicated to these events.

Because this kind of book used to be a record of the work of an official who did business, the only people who could see it were probably the younger generations who inherited his work.

The circulation is not widespread, and people outside, even if there are some records, but in the impression of many people, the books in this area are a waste of bamboo slips even if they are copied down.

Even those who want to write will pay a lot of money because of the value of the bamboo slips, so they basically just remember them in their minds.

Without records, there can be no accumulation

This city guard is one of the few people who is willing to record.

Of course, this is also the time when he encountered a good situation, and paper was born, which reduced the cost of this work a lot.

In fact, during this time, many scholars in Dahan began to devote themselves to writing.

A good book, if it can be written in this era, is very likely to be passed on.

Therefore, many people even resigned from their official positions and concentrated on their writings.

The salary given to officials by the emperor of the Han Dynasty seems to be very high, but most officials actually do not live on this salary.

They have enough money for their families.

And many of the people who are officials are the heads of the family. If he can say anything, he wants to resign and go home, which is certainly not a good thing for the family.

But in fact, the impact is not great.

In general, in a big family, there will not be only one person in the family who is an official.

Being an official also needs to be in a group, otherwise there is no way to do the things that the emperor explains.

Trying to do things for the government has never been something that one person can do.

Three gangs of a hero.

For example, in the work of the castle guard, the emperor only gave him a salary, but if he wanted to do the job well, he had to bring five people from his family to help him do things together.

Outsiders may think that he wants to pretend to be a public servant, but if he doesn't want to be trapped in this job.

The help of these five people is necessary.

Therefore, being an official or doing things is actually better than being a person.

People who can be human beings can easily get things done.

People who don't know how to be human will feel that they will encounter difficulties in doing anything.

Castle Keeper is a man who can do things, which is why he has so much time to do what he thinks he should do.

In fact, these things are also related to his work. It's not a bad job.

"I found that these plants, together have not been seen. ”

What is everyone's ability, and those who are officials are the most taboo and confused.

If you encounter something that the other party is good at and don't let the other party do it, it is easy to make enemies in officialdom.

In officialdom, the quality of the collective is very important, and when most people want to do good deeds, a person who can be a person can double the efficiency of this work.

However, if the quality of officialdom is not good, a person who can be a person can only do things to protect himself, so as not to constitute an obstacle to others.