Li Shimin frowned, and the whole person looked very impatient, why do so many people want to see me today.

He lowered his head and continued to look at Song Shu: "Xuan him come in." ”

Zhang Qian bowed his head and said yes.

After a while, this Wei Xuanzhen came in, and as soon as he saw Li Shimin, he immediately knelt on the ground and wailed: "Your Majesty, your minister...... It's bitter, it's unspeakably bitter. ”

Li Shimin finally reluctantly removed his gaze from the song, and raised his eyes to look at him: "Qing is miserable, why is he so angry?" ”

Wei Xuanzhen was speechless for a while, but no matter what, he must inform His Majesty of Chen Zhengtai's hateful behavior, and His Majesty must bring Chen Zhengtai's liar to justice.

He secretly cursed the Chen family in his heart, and then said with a sad face.

"Your Majesty, the minister is popular."

Li Shimin looked away, glanced at Wei Xuanzhen, who looked pitiful, and couldn't help but say, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

Wei Xuanzhen burst into tears and sued Chen Zhengtai, saying that he was deceived by Chen Zhengtai and took away the land.

When he said the emotion, he was already choked up, beating his chest and saying sadly.

"What Chen Zhengtai did, it is really indignant to people and gods, Your Majesty, he deceived people too much, took only a few dozen catties of grain, and exchanged it for an acre of land for the Wei family, and the Wei family suffered heavy losses, a full 100,000 mu of land......"

"Wait!" When Li Shimin heard this, his expression moved, he actually took a piece of paper, then picked up the pen, hesitated for a moment, and said to Zhang Qian on the side: "Take the abacus." ”

"Ah......h

Wei Xuanzhen: "......"

Zhang Qian took the abacus and hurriedly came, Li Shimin carried the abacus and fiddled with it several times in a row, and finally said: "Wei Qing's family, it turns out that you still have 15,000 stone of grain at home?" ”

Wei Xuanzhen felt a little confused.

He originally thought that Li Shimin was on the first layer, that is, someone dared to bully the emperor's relatives and relatives, and Chen Zhengtai should be damned.

And he stands on the second floor, as long as he comes to sue, with his clever tongue, Chen Zhengtai will have to take off a layer of skin.

Who knew that His Majesty was actually on the third layer, and he was worried about the Wei family's food.

So, Wei Xuanzhen immediately said: "Your Majesty, this is the life of the Wei family." ”

His voice was hoarse, and he looked like he wanted to cry without tears.

At this time, he consciously stood on the fourth floor, this is the foundation of our Wei family, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, how can you worry about it.

Li Shimin obviously stood taller than him.

It stands to reason that what Wei Xuanzhen said makes sense.

But......

Li Shimin said coldly: "The Chen family's tens of thousands of stones of grain are willing to pour out their pockets and serve the imperial court." Your Wei family has received much more grace from me than the Chen family, but now that the lives are in misery, the Wei family is actually indifferent, and they are still thinking about it? ”

This reprimand frightened Wei Xuanzhen into a cold sweat and didn't dare to squeak anymore.

After all, other families are still just pretending to be poor, and they say that they can't survive anymore, so if you take a few hundred stones, he will take a few hundred stones, which is very reasonable, Li Shimin can't go to their homes after all.

But the Wei family is different, they admit that they have a lot of food at home, and I am also clear and clear, do you still want to deny it?

The Chen family took out all the grain to help the people, and under this catastrophe, your Wei family not only pretended to be deaf and dumb, but also wanted to frame Zhongliang.

Outrageous.

Li Shimin had a calm face, and when he saw Wei Xuanzhen speechless and unwilling, he thought of this time...... Guan Zhong was in a hurry, and he couldn't care about anything else, so he sneered: "I have ordered you to offer five thousand stone grains within three days, if not, I will not spare you." ”

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty ...... "Wei Xuanzhen was stunned, five thousand stones...... This is the hard-earned food of your own land.

He muttered to himself, "Your Majesty, you can't do this...... This...... This ......"

"You retire, within three days, if the Wei family can't hand over the grain, I will go and get it myself!"

These words can be said to be the culmination of ruthlessness.

Wei Xuanzhen was a little dazed, and at this time he suddenly began to wonder, who told him to come to His Majesty to complain?

When he looked up, he saw Li Shimin's murderous spirit, so he had no choice but to lose his soul and get up and leave.

Li Shimin waited for this Wei Xuanzhen to retire, and he still didn't understand his hatred, so he couldn't help but reprimand angrily: "How can this be true, you dare to come and sue my protégé, if it weren't for Chen Zhengtai, I don't know how many people starved to death today." This man's lust for profit is so much. “

Zhang Qian smiled beside him: "Yes, yes, Your Majesty is every word, and he is broken in one word." ”

Li Shimin squinted, and he didn't understand his hatred: "The Wei family really doesn't have a good person, you write it down, I won't go to Wei Guifei's place to sleep from now on!" ”

Zhang Qian's body was shocked, and he looked at Li Shimin in shock, and couldn't help but think in his heart, the Wei family is really going to suffer a lot now.

……

In addition to selling salt recently, Li Xiao has also complained a lot.

Chen Zhengtai didn't bother to listen to his complaints, but from time to time he paid money out of the salt shop, and the profits of the salt shop were thrown into Erpigou.

The school needs to be built, the white salt needs to be refined, and in addition, it is necessary to undertake a lot of tasks of raising chickens and exterminating locusts.

In addition to consuming food, these also require the consumption of countless amounts of money.

Chen Zhengtai had something to say, so he could only say to Chen Fu that the more salt this guy ate, the more stupid he felt.

"Then Li Xiao knows something, people and land, people and land; If the land is lost, the people and the land are lost. This principle is the same in terms of management, saving people lose money, and everyone saves money. He only looked at the small profits in front of him, but he didn't know that in this world, the most precious thing is people, understand? ”

Chen Fu looked at Chen Zhengtai with a confused expression, but he didn't seem to understand, and the chicken nodded with a peck of rice.

"You see, after following me, even you seem a little smarter."

Riding a horse, he took Chen Fu to a newly built workshop near the salt works.

Over here...... A group of laborers selected from the homeless population is in full swing.

People are indeed the most precious, and if they eat twice a day, even if they just drink gruel, they are willing to thank Dade for working for you for seven or eight hours day and night.

The most important thing is that when Chen Zhengtai appeared, these sweaty laborers still looked at Chen Zhengtai with a grateful face.

This made Chen Zhengtai a little embarrassed, and his son really made the transaction charity.

The workshop occupies a large area, with a special furnace, an exhaust chimney, and a large pond with water from the nearby mountains.

Chen Zhengtai's fourth uncle has already been here, he is busy with his hands, he has accumulated a lot of management experience in salt refining before, this time Chen Zhengtai asked him to bring some backbones here, these days the fourth uncle has been here behind closed doors.

"Childe, what are you doing here?"

"Papermaking!" Chen Zhengtai said: "You watch. ”

Chen Fu was curious about how Childe was interested in papermaking.

At this time...... All the processes were in place, and then the fourth uncle began to command people, and a large amount of 'clinker' was moved from the warehouse, as well as buckets of white pulp.

The more Chen Fu looked, the more confused he felt, he was also a knowledgeable person, he had seen all kinds of paper in the Chen family, and he heard that this paper was made of tree bark and wolfberry bark or rattan, and it took a lot of effort.

In Chen Fu's view, there are many processes for making paper, so the price is particularly expensive, and it is not something that ordinary people can never afford.

Let's just say that the books made of paper are very valuable at this time, and only high-class people like the Chen family can collect them. Even so, when Childe practiced calligraphy, he didn't practice with paper, which was too wasteful. Instead, he used bamboo slices and pen and ink to write on the top, and when he finished writing, Chen Fu took a knife and gently peeled off the bamboo skin on the top layer of calligraphy, and then asked Gongzi to continue to practice calligraphy on the newly cut bamboo slices.

But now that he heard that Childe wanted to make paper, he came to the spirit, paper is a priceless treasure, the most valuable, even the most inferior paper on the market, can be exchanged for a lot of money.

It's just that when he saw that everyone brought buckets of 'clinker', Chen Fu was stunned, what's the matter, what about the bark, wolfbark, and green vine?

At this time, the laborers who have been training for a long time have already begun to get busy......

Chen Zhengtai put his hands behind his back and stood aside to watch with relish.

Since the ancestors invented paper, and then in the Eastern Han Dynasty, people improved paper and became able to write on paper, which is almost a great progress.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, many different kinds of paper also appeared, but papermaking in this era was particularly troublesome, and there were dozens of steps required, starting from the selection of materials, and then going through cutting, cooking, soaking, peeling, sun drying, and finally making leather blanks. Immediately afterwards, the leather blank needs to be soaked, through cooking, washing, pressing, selection, bleaching, washing, pressing, continuing to select, feeding, washing and other pulping processes, this is only the second step, the real difficulty is still in the latter, but also need to carry out the whole material water distribution, glue, paper, pressing, baking, paper selection, paper-cutting, etc., this paper can be produced.

The most difficult part is not that the process is cumbersome, but that in these countless processes, any mistake may be wasted and eventually become waste.

Chen Zhengtai deliberately paid attention to the papermaking process of this era, and found that those who could make paper were skilled craftsmen, and it was protracted, and the manpower and material resources used were very amazing.

Chen Zhengtai improved the process of papermaking, in fact, the method he improved was very simple, but the papermaking materials were fermented in advance to make mature materials, and at the same time, ...... It took the technique of bleaching.

These skills appeared at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the papermaking process had made great progress after thousands of years of development. The manufacturing process of paper is becoming less and less, there is no longer a need for skilled craftsmen, and there is no need for a protracted time, in the period from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, paper has begun to be manufactured on a large scale, although it has not been exaggerated enough to fly into the homes of ordinary people, but for the people, it is not a rare thing.

To put it bluntly, the progress of human beings does not lie in how rare treasures can be made, but in how to produce more goods in large quantities with the least manpower and the simplest process.

………

The kiln in the workshop has been fired.

The clinker is poured directly into the boiling water in the furnace, and then the laborer begins to stir with a long stick, and the boiling water is continuously heated and stirred to make it into pulp......

All of this is like magic, the original extremely difficult pulp production is easily mixed here, and look at the latex-like pulp is extraordinarily uniform.

The manufacturing process, which used to take countless hours, turned out to be miraculous, and it was completed in just a few hours.

Chen Fu was dumbfounded.

Chen Zhengtai's fourth uncle is an honest man, and no one can see his joy and anger on weekdays, but today, his eyebrows are stretched, although he has experienced this process many times. A few days ago, Chen Zhengtai asked him to select the raw materials for fermentation, and also carried out several trial productions, but at this moment, there were still some surprises for him.

How easy can papermaking be?

Not only is the process reduced by more than a dozen, but ordinary labor can be completed with a little adjustment, and what is even more terrifying is ...... After the paper is finally cut, it is bleached and finally dried, and the texture of the paper is exceptionally smooth and snow-white.

Most of Datang's paper is yellowed.

Although if you want to whiten, you can use more processes and use more expensive raw materials to make it white, but the price of that kind of hard white paper is even higher to the sky, and only real princes and nobles can barely use it.

After a pile of paper was cut, it was finally formed, Chen Zhengtai stepped forward, touched the texture of the paper, observed its color, but shook his head in his heart, this paper ...... Compared with the paper of later generations, it is still a lot worse.

But on the other side, the fourth uncle looked at this paper, and his eyes were red, and his eyes were full of tears, this man who was over thirty years old, his lips trembled, and he couldn't help himself with excitement: "Good paper, really good paper, Zhengtai, with this paper, even if our Chen family has no salt, it is enough to gain a foothold among all the surnames in the world."

He said, wiping away his tears: "No wonder the third uncle taught me to listen to you in everything, saying that when you were born, your body will glow golden, and our Chen family will ......"

Chen Zhengtai hurriedly said: "Don't send golden light, just send silver light, send golden light to make people misunderstand when they hear it......"

Fourth Uncle: "......"