Although you can't apply potion on paper, why not just pour the potion into the pulp? Zhang Ning, who was behind Ma Qiang, said suddenly.

Swish!

Everyone turned their heads to look at the little girl behind Ma Qiang.

"For example, when steaming bamboo, add the bark of barberry, and you can also add cockscomb stone to the pulp, so that the pulp itself is toxic, not to mention insects and ants, I am afraid that it will smell how far it will go and how far it will run."

Zhang Ning's words made Zuo Bo slap his thigh violently, looked at Zhang Ning excitedly and said, "This method is feasible!" This woman is smart and can be compared to Zhao Ji! ”

Akihime?

"Zhao Ji that Zuo Gong said, could it be the daughter of that uncle?" Zhang Zhi stroked her beard and asked, "The last time I saw her, she was still waiting to be fed, what's wrong?" Is she a talented woman now? ”

Uncle Zuo nodded and said, "It is this woman, this woman is proficient in scripture music, although she is less than ten years old, she has been known as the first talented woman in Luoyang, when she was three years old, Bo Ji played the piano in the house, and accidentally broke the third string, this woman asked in the courtyard But the third string was broken?" Bo Ji felt strange, so he deliberately broke the fifth root, and the woman asked, "But the fifth root?" Now that he is getting older, even in Hongdu, it is difficult to have an opponent. ”

"Humph! Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, what is it? My husband and I have learned the ability to enrich the people and strengthen the country! Zhang Ning already thought very highly of herself, and when she heard Uncle Zuo say that her wisdom could be compared with Cai Zhaoji, she was not only unhappy, but felt that she was humiliating her, in her heart, among women, she should be the strongest.

And... She really doesn't know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she is a good hand at drawing Taoist symbols.

Everyone listened, just as Zhang Ning was joking, laughed with each other for a while, and then slipped over, Ma Qiang said to Zuo Bo, "Since the papermaking technique can still be improved, please trouble Zuo Gong to continue to take Qingcheng to improve the papermaking technique!" ”

Zuo Bo nodded in agreement.

"As for the enlightenment that Mr. Guan just said, I have a few books here, let's take a look at them together." Ma Qiang waved his hand for the sergeant behind him to take out a package, and then Ma Qiang opened the package, which contained several books.

"This is "Enlightenment Pinyin", "Three Hundred Words", "Thousand Words", after learning these three books, there is no problem with basic literacy."

"This.." Guan Ning's eyes widened, and he asked for a long time, "What is this?" ”

Ma Qiangleng for a moment, and realized that these people still didn't know what pinyin was, and hurriedly explained, "This is an improvement of the cut sound, called pinyin, let me explain." ”

Ma Qiang explained the pinyin, and everyone present was a Confucian, and he quickly understood.

"And what are these tadpole-like things?"

"These are punctuation marks, for ease of reading, this is a comma, this is a period, this is an ellipsis..."

Ma Qiang explained the meaning of the punctuation marks, and everyone nodded in understanding after listening to the words in the book and reading them again.

"Oh, I see, these symbols are more beautiful than they are now, and they can be promoted."

Zhang Zhi is a calligrapher with an eye for beauty, and at once he discovered the benefits of these symbols, but also found problems.

Many people in later generations thought that there was no punctuation in ancient times, but this point of view is both right and wrong, the concept of punctuation marks was first in the oracle bone inscription of the Shang Dynasty, but the punctuation marks at that time were still extremely simple, such as the horizontal lines used in segments, etc., to the Qin and Han dynasties, there were already commas, full stop prototypes, such as the bamboo slips of the Qin tomb in the Sleeping Tiger Land There are two short horizontal marks, check signs, black square signs, and dot four symbols.

If it continues to develop, there should soon be punctuation marks in later generations, but this development began to slow down suddenly in the Wei and Jin dynasties, because if the punctuation marks are placed in the classics, many controversial sentences will be defined, which is nothing in the Han Dynasty of the original scriptures, but for the Wei and Jin dynasties and even the Tang and Song dynasties that began to pass on the scriptures due to the popularity of paper, there will be big problems, which also makes booksellers begin to avoid directly adding symbols to the book, but let the reader go back to add punctuation by himself, otherwise the transaction will be small, once the platform is launched, it is said that it is spreading fallacies and heresies, and it will lose its head.

"Ma Guoxiang, this punctuation mark, it is best not to print it directly on the book, at least, not on the classics, otherwise, there will be trouble in the future." Zhang Zhi told Ma Qiang the reason, and Ma Qiang understood why most of the ancient books found in later generations were punctuated by readers, rather than directly added when printing.

"Then the classics and scriptures will not be added, but other miscellaneous books will be added." Ma Qiang was not prepared to let the school teach many scriptures, so it didn't matter if he couldn't punctuate the classics.

Anyway, what Master Confucius meant by his words has been arguing for seven or eight years, and it doesn't matter if he quarrels for another two thousand years.

- The next day

Ma Qiang officially announced Guan Ning as the chief priest of the plains, and Guan Ning also knew at this time that Bing Yuan had long been in seclusion, Ma Qiang didn't find him at all, and the angry Guan Ning covered his face on the spot and wanted to escape to the mountains to live in seclusion, if it weren't for Ma Qiang's immediate appointment to Guan Ning with four sergeants to protect him day and night, the director of the education bureau with the shortest tenure in history would be born.

Under Zhang Ning's prompting, Zuo Bo added herbs and medicinal stones to the pulp, and sure enough, he made paper that was not afraid of insect bites, and named this step as Ruihuang.

With this kind of paper, Ma Qiang's school can also officially open.

When hundreds of schools in the Plains Country opened at the same time, the whole Plains Country was a sensation, and the parents of ordinary people who had children who were selected to enter the school saw their children wearing the same student uniforms as those children from rich families entering the school, and they all cried excitedly.

Although it is just like what Ma Qiang said before, entering the academy and reading does not mean that you can become an official or do Confucian research, and you may end up being a small official or even a craftsman, but this is the same as later generations, studying in college, although it does not mean that you will definitely be able to live a good life of marrying Bai Fumei and walking to the peak of life, but if you don't study, your chances of living that life are even smaller.

It is useless to read, whoever believes is stupid.

If you don't study, you can't pay the IQ tax, and you still want to get rich?

With the opening of the school, Ma Qiang's farming career in the Plains Country is slowly on the right track.

On the other side of Luoyang, although Huangfu Song was not imprisoned, he was removed from the post of general of the left chariot cavalry and cut down 6,000 households. Changed the title of the townsman, 2,000 households in the food estate, and was idle at home.

In place of Huangfu Song was Zhang Wen, who was crowned as the general of the chariot cavalry, and was appointed as the deputy general at the same time as Yuan Peng, the ruling Jinwu of the Yuan clan of Chenjun.

Zhang Wen can sit in this position, everyone can see that it is the Yuan family that has made a force, although Dong Zhuo, who was already resentful of the Yuan family, was crowned as a broken general, but he still gave Zhang Wen a look at the military meeting, and Zhang Wen was angry and gritted his teeth, and he was helpless, because it was not only Dong Zhuo who gave him a face, but also Tao Qian, a captain of Yangwu, Tao Qian gave Zhang Wen a look not because of the Yuan family, but because he looked down on Zhang Wen's behavior of spending money to buy officials.

The generals were so discordant, and Sun Jian, who was in the lower position, was worried, and only felt that this time the western expedition was more than auspicious.