Chapter 40: The Appearance of Paper
The hundred officials retreated, and Ying Zicheng was left behind. Emperor Qin intends to care about his cheap son, smart, with my style, worthy of being my son, such a majestic giant city plan, no one dares to think of it. Comparable to more than 20 years of Zheng Guoqu, the construction of Zheng Guoqu enabled Qin to lay the foundation for the unification of the six countries, resulting in "the Guanzhong is ripe, the world is enough." "As long as there is a bumper harvest in Guanzhong, it can meet the world's food needs.
And this Xianyang Giant City Plan will stabilize the foundation of the Qin Dynasty, and only need the successive kings to continuously enrich the population of Guannai, until this giant city really accommodates tens of millions of people, then where is the world unstable? Qin Baishi............ Qin Wan has been endless, and the meaning of building this giant city is how Emperor Qin understands. After all, at that time, there were only 30 or 40 million people in the world.
Thinking about it this way, Win Zicheng's plan can't be overrewarded. Thinking of this, Emperor Qin unconsciously saw that Yingzicheng was becoming more and more pleasing to the eye, and the previous thing that smeared his face at the gate of Xianyang Palace was also erased. "In front of the people of Xianyang, shouting to send money to yourself, what will the people of the world think of themselves, our monarch likes money. β
Thinking of his Qin Wanshi's plan, he completed it again, and he was in a good mood, joking; Emperor, didn't you say that I would send money, what about the money, take it out?"
"I almost forgot about the big thing, and I've been pretending to be B, so it's a mistake to pretend B, my new technology hasn't been promoted yet, and now I've got a whole Xianyang City plan. Originally, I wanted to extort some money from Emperor Qin's father, but it seems impossible, and I can pay well without sticking cement, what is this called, tell you to pretend to be B. Thinking of this, Ying Zicheng had a loveless expression.
Looking at this expression, Emperor Qin was even more sure of his judgment, "This kid is here, he has no money at all, it's not that he doesn't plan to send money to himself, he has cheated so much money from hundreds of families, how can he have no money." Now I know it's uncomfortable. He said again: "Emperor, take it out quickly, my father can't wait." β
"Take it out, you can't read it. "Here you go. Ying Zicheng took out the bank plan from his clothes, and wrote it on paper, still in simplified Chinese.
"Bah" Emperor Qin Yingzheng took the piece handed over by Yingzicheng. This Ying Zicheng has already dealt with the form of calligraphy in the Ming and Qing dynasties of television. Emperor Qin's eyes couldn't help but light up, this was much easier to carry and watch than bamboo slips. Open the rice paper, and the thin pages are slowly opened. "This thing is good," Emperor Qin praised.
I opened the rice paper and looked at it for a while. "Emperor Qin is also difficult, after all, it is the first piece of music played by his emperor, even if he can't understand it, he has to pretend to look at it to show his attention. "Ahem," "Does the emperor plan to use the simplified Chinese characters he says all the time, regardless of Qin Seal or Lishu?" asked Emperor Qin embarrassedly. "I really don't pay attention to the simplified Chinese characters created by my own emperor. But at this moment, you can't break the emperor's heart, it's hard to be a father. Next time, let Zhao Gao, write and transcribe, the simplified characters created by the emperor, I have time to learn, so that I will not be as embarrassed as today in the future. "But the things written by the emperor are excellent, and if all the ministers write the chapters with this thing, it will be more convenient for me." β
"Eh, cough" Emperor Qin planned to transfer more than half of the incomprehensible font, "I don't know, what is the writing carrier played by the emperor?"
"Father, his eyes are like torches, and he is always so keen. This is the child lasted 5 years and spent more than 100,000 gold to create this thing, which is called "paper." When Ying Zicheng heard this, this was business again, and he doubled his boast about the efforts he had made, and how rare the paper was. to sell at a good price.
"Hundreds of thousands of gold, this thing is needed. "Sure enough, good things are not cheap, but it's a pity, it's a pity that I can't afford to use such good things." In the future, I can only go to the emperor a little bit to fight the autumn breeze. Emperor Qin thought secretly. I can't say that the emperor's plaything is demoralized, just this little thing, it cost hundreds of thousands of gold, and the thing is indeed a good thing, but it is too expensive. My own emperor is really rich, look at the emperor's factory, and Huaxia Building, if the father is reincarnated, he will definitely be a genius and accept him as a disciple. It's a pity that Yafu LΓΌ Buwei is dead, although it is not his own order, but he acquiesces in it. Where can I go and find a suitable teacher for my Nine Emperor Princes?
Emperor Qin then encouraged: "This thing is very good, but it takes a lot of money, and the emperor still makes it less." β
Ying Zicheng: "............" What is the reaction, this thing is very good, shouldn't it be booked in large quantities, Ying Zicheng was stunned. I seem to have overdone B again. "Father, it was the son who didn't explain clearly, this thing cost the child more than 100,000 gold, and it was improved, and now the same size only needs one-tenth of the price of the same size bamboo slip. Cheap, father, very cheap, order, father, son's factory is already hungry. β
Then Yingzi Cheng You added a sentence at the back, thinking about his father, and said: "Father, you don't actually have to spend money, you just need to give an order, and all the officials will use this thing to make money, let's divide the account between the two of us, you see how it is." Today's paper of such a chapter, the son plans to only sell the same bamboo slips of the 20% off, do you think how the father and the emperor, do you need to mention the price?"
After listening to what Ying Zicheng said, Emperor Qin had a stick and wanted to kill such a rebel. "It's so shameless, even the officials of Great Qin don't let go. Only one-tenth of the cost of bamboo slips is only 80% off the same bamboo slips, so huge profits, and I am not afraid of being found by hundreds of officials and choked to death. The tenth of what this son said, there must be a lot of water. β
Emperor Qin really couldn't stand it anymore. Said: "This thing is beneficial to the world, it needs to be sold at a fair price, and Shaofu will take over this thing." β
Ying Zicheng: "............" "My father can discuss, you can discuss, if you are not satisfied with five or five, you can open four or six, and you can also open three or seven." It's twenty-eight, and my father is twenty-eight. β
"This thing has great benefits in the world, and this thing will be taken over by the Shaofu to promote it to the world at a low price. The emperor should make money elsewhere. Emperor Qin directly refused. "What is this written, you can tell yourself. "Emperor Qin has really never seen so many words of music, and the most music he has seen is only about 1,000 words, dense, estimated to be 10,000, rare, Qin Huang is also curious about what kind of movement needs 10,000 words. Even the "LΓΌ's Spring and Autumn Period" compiled by his father LΓΌ Buwei and more than 3,000 people under his disciples is only more than 20 thousand words.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the items used to record the text had not yet been invented, and the recorded text was made of bamboo slips, silk and other things, and the silk was expensive, the bamboo slips were bulky, the writing was difficult, and the number of words recorded was limited, in order to be able to write down more things on the "one roll" bamboo slips, it was necessary to delete the unimportant words, and express the most content with the least words, it can be said that "classical Chinese" is the "compressed" format of the world's earliest written records.
Therefore, the ancients generally rarely had long articles, such as: the total number of words in the Book of Changes is 29250
Spring and Autumn Left Pass 101600
Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu) 46800
Analects 18056
Zhuangzi 39320
Han Feizi 66000