Wang Baiji is an ordinary person who can't be in the ordinary people, in his early years, he was lonely, wandered all over the world, followed several masters, learned to eat, worked as a carpenter, worked as a porcelain craftsman, and the last master was a cartographer who made maps.

In the Jin Dynasty, map drawing, is a very high-tech work, generally only the imperial court of the weapons supervisor can do, before Wuzong, maps and weapons are also subject to certain restrictions, in the folk is not very circulating, Wuzong reform, many restrictions are beginning to relax, many departments a large number of low-level officials, save the central financial expenditure, many people with superb skills, are leaving Fengjing, back to the place.

For example, mapping, the mapping of a state, two or three people work together, it takes about three or five years to complete, if the quality of the map is good, it can generally be sold for three or five hundred taels of silver, which sounds good, but in fact, a few people get it, it is more than one hundred taels, and it is higher than the income of ordinary people.

Wang Baiji used to be the person who was engaged in this work, and in his hands, the Wang family, although it was still poor and poor, but the people also grew and prospered.

Wang Baiji had a total of four sons and five daughters, two of whom were sons and two sons-in-law, who learned the craft of drawing with him, because Wang Baiji had been a carpenter and porcelain craftsman in his early years, and finally created the sand table.

Listening to Wang Baiji's inquiry, Li Xun shook his head and didn't answer, did he tell him that this thing, in his world, was very ordinary?

Li Xun looked at Wang Baiji and asked aloud: "Can you make the entire thirteen states of Longyou into such a sand table?" ”

Wang Baiji was stunned, and then smiled bitterly: "It can be, but the amount of work is too large, and it is definitely not something that three or five of us can complete..."

It took three years to make the sand table, which took the entire Minzhou landscape to draw a very detailed map, and then took Xiaogu County as a model, which took nearly a year to make the sand table of the entire Xiaogu County.

Wang Baiji was originally a native of Hedong, after the recovery of Longyou, the imperial court recruited a large number of people to relocate, giving extremely generous treatment, Wang Baiji's family was already very poor, in order to change their lives, so the family moved to Minzhou, Ding men 50 acres Ding women 30 acres and 40 years old halved, there are people who join the army, doubled, Wang Baiji's family of more than 20 people, but also divided to nearly 1,000 acres of land, after several years of hard reclamation, the economic conditions have been greatly improved, and it is in this situation that Wang Baiji moved the idea of making a sand table, But the energy and manpower consumption is too great, the whole family is about to be dragged down, and the sand table made cannot be sold, in this regard, the children of the Wang family have a deep resentment against Wang Baiji, and Wang Baiji himself is also a little disheartened, if it is not for Li Xun to summon him, he is ready to destroy the sand table, and then go home, farm honestly, and live the rest of his life.

After Wang Baiji finished speaking, Li Xun nodded, didn't say anything, pointed to the sand table, and said lightly: "I bought this thing, you can set a price." ”

Wang Baiji glanced at the sand table, was silent for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "If the general likes it, I will give it to you." ”

Li Xun said lightly: "I will never take other people's things for nothing." ”

Before Wang Baiji could speak, Wang Xiao, the third son standing behind him, was the first to say: "General, if you want, three hundred taels of silver is enough." ”

Li Xun smiled, Wang Xiao saw Li Xun smiling, thinking that he thought it was expensive, and hurriedly explained: "Three hundred taels of silver, we didn't make a penny.... We walked all over...."

Li Xun didn't listen to the latter words, and said to Jiang Daxiong on the side: "Give money." ”

Jiang Daxiong took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms and looked at Li Xun, meaning how much to give?

Li Xun said softly: "Give it to them." ”

Jiang Daxiong was stunned and said, "Boss, this is more than five thousand taels." ”

A broken thing can cost more than 5,000 taels of silver?

"Give it to him."

Jiang Daxiong didn't say much, and stuffed all the silver tickets in his hand into Wang Baiji's arms.

Wang Baiji looked at the money in his hand, stunned, he had lived for most of his life, and he had never seen so much money.

Looking at Wang Baiji, who was already dumbfounded, Li Xun smiled, turned around and walked to the sand table, and looked carefully, there was a small road on it, which could be directly inserted into Langzhou, which was the nearest road, and this road, Li Xun didn't know at all.

Li Xun nodded with satisfaction, if it was just an ordinary sand table, Li Xun wouldn't care, there must be many people who would do this thing, the reason why there was no one before, it was because people in this era did not have this concept yet, or did not think of it, this is already an innovation.

Li Xun values Wang Baiji because of his talent in cartography, in this regard, Wang Baiji does have an outstanding, master in the people, this is really true!

After a while, Wang Baiji reacted and stammered: "General, I can't ask for so much money." ”

Li Xun turned around and said lightly: "I have taken a fancy to this skill of yours, go to Xizhou, draw a detailed map there as much as possible, be sure, you will accept this money, if you can succeed, one of your sons can come out to be an official." ”

Wang Baiji is just an ordinary person, Li Xun has nothing to say to them, just lure him.

Wang Baiji smiled bitterly: "My sons and sons-in-law can't read a few big characters, how can they be officials?" ”

Regarding Li Xun's words, Wang Baiji was a little unconvinced.

Li Xun smiled: "I am going to set up an ordnance superintendent, and those who can live in it do not need to be literate." ”

Li Cunxiao said with a smile on the side: "The ordnance supervisor is correct, if it is at the level of the Jiedu Mansion, it is also the seventh grade." ”

Wang Baiji was a little stunned, but his son Wang Xiao reacted, Li Xun's meaning was very simple, that is, he took a fancy to his father's drawing skills, and asked him to go to the Western Regions and draw a map of the local area, first of all, to draw a map of the entire territory of Xizhou. It's likely to fall on your head.

Wang Xiao immediately knelt on the ground and said loudly: "If the general can keep his word, we should go all out." ”

After that, Wang Xiao just kowtowed.

If the money is not money, it is still secondary, the important thing is that he can come out to be an official, Zheng Qipin, that is an official at the level of the county master, for ordinary people like Wang Xiao, he is already a great official, he didn't dare to think about it before, but now that Li Xun has mentioned it, how can Wang Xiao not be excited? 2k reading web