"You don't even know the subordinates under the Shaofu, so you became the Shaofu in a daze? I'm really worried now that we'll be able to do it. ”

The two were already sitting in a small courtyard of the Shaofu Office, and Zhang Han listened to Heifu ask him about Shaofu, which was funny and a little worried.

Heifu was very helpless: "The Shaofu has the most subordinates in Jiuqing, and there are dozens of subordinate offices. Its functions are wide, from the salt and iron of the mountains and seas, to the mouth of the city tax, to the examination of the work and food, how many. I only know Shaofu and Shaofu Supervisor now, as for the others, how can they remember them one by one? ”

Zhang Han thought about it carefully, what Heifu said was right, unless it was a person like him, who had been a small official in the Shaofu since he joined the office, it was really not easy to clarify the complicated and huge duties of the Shaofu.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Shaofu is the institution that manages the emperor's finances.

The financial revenue of the Qin Dynasty was basically divided into two. The land rent of the majority belongs to the history of the state, and this part is the national financial revenue, and the public budget for officials and road construction is allocated from here every year.

The mouth tax, that is, the poll tax, together with the tax of mountains and seas and ponds, and the city rent, are collectively referred to as forbidden money, which belongs to the emperor's personal income and is assigned to the inner government. Qin Shi Huang cast twelve gold men, and the money for overhauling the palace was spent from here.

"So the emperor thinks that when he overhauls the palace in Guanzhong, he is actually spending his own money, and others can't care about it......" Heifu somewhat understood why Youhan and Fusu's advice hit the iron plate.

However, the income of the Shaofu is too much, accounting for one-third of the national finance! With one-third of the financial support for one person every year, the emperor's power can be imagined.

Of course, it is said that in the years of the Battle of Exterminating Chu, the history of Zhisu was unable to make ends meet, and the emperor did not let Shaofu allocate funds to save the emergency.

The authority of the Shaofu is not only the emperor's inner library, in addition, all the emperor's food and clothing, medicine offerings, garden tours, and utensils are all led by the Shaofu. The imperial physician who dealt with Heifu ordered Xia Wuhe, and he was under the control of the Shaofu.

Due to the wide scope of Shaofu's functions, it is necessary to set up a special "Liucheng" to be in charge.

Zhang Han snapped his fingers and gave Heifu science what the princes of the Shaofu were doing.

"Shaofu Tongcheng, in charge of mouth payment and coinage."

Heifu silently wrote it down, and the label he put on it in his heart was: Bank of China.

"Shaofu Neicheng, the prince of the palace clothes, treasures, and treasures, has the eunuch's main meal, the guide main rice, the Yuefu main music and dance, and the Yellow Gate Order to control the eunuchs in the palace."

Does this count as the head of the Ouchi? Heifu said secretly.

"Shaofu Yuancheng, in charge of all the mountains, forests, ponds and marshes of the royal family, there are all officials, Junguan, Shanglin, and pond supervisors."

State Forestry Administration, Hef's head.

"The Shaofu will be in charge of the palace craftsmen, such as Shang Fang's main palace forbidden utensils, the imperial palace master of the Son of Heaven's clothes, the East Garden craftsman mainly made the artifacts in the imperial mausoleum, and there is also an examination room to manage the workshops inside and outside the palace."

Heifu knows, so the terracotta warriors and horses are also fired by the East Garden craftsman?

Later, Zhang Han also mentioned Shaofu Prison, who was in charge of the edict. It turned out that this Shaofu was also in charge of more than a dozen edict prisons such as Yongxiang Prison, Weaving Room Prison, and Sikong Prison, and held thousands of prisoners. At present, these people are the main labor force in the construction of the palace in Guanzhong. The work is inexhaustible, and in a few years, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lishan will still be waiting for them.

"Historically, Zhang Han didn't take this group of prisoners to confront Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?" Heifu glanced at Zhang Han, he had already finished talking about Wucheng, but he was left alone.

"The sixth Cheng is not permanent, it is generally a fake Cheng."

Zhang Han told Heifu that the Sixth Cheng usually only appoints one person to be in charge of some huge projects, such as Zheng Guoqu, Du Dongling, Zhiyang Mausoleum, Six Kings Palace, and Twelve Golden People, which must be completed within the scheduled time, a bit like the project team of later generations......

The last project team was the casting of the Twelve Golden Figures, and now, it is Heifu's turn to take care of the papermaking, who made Qin Shi Huang interested in his idea.

After all, Qin Shi Huang has to review 120 catties of music every day, which is really a heavy physical work, if he can really make "paper" that is as light as silk and cheaper than simple as black man said, not only the emperor's own work is much easier, but also greatly beneficial to the implementation of the book and the same text.

But the First Emperor was not a patient man, and he demanded that Heifu must produce results within this year (before October)!

Heifu himself is also anxious, and what makes people even more angry is that what the emperor appointed him to do was actually a "fake Shaofu Cheng", with no one under him, like a bare-bones commander.

Fortunately, the emperor gave him the power to select people from various official offices, and ordered the Shaofu Zhucheng to do his best to assist Heifu.

Heifu was the first to name Zhang Han, and with the help of this brother who is familiar with Shaofu and has presided over many projects, things are much easier.

While Heifu was chatting with Zhang Han, he found two other subordinates, and finally arrived.

Coming in one after the other were a thin man dressed in black with a sad face, and a big fat man with silk on his body and almost soaked with sweat.

It was Qin Mo, Cheng Shang and Shi Zhang Cang......

……

With the casting of the Twelve Golden Figures, the great palace in Guanzhong, and the immigrants and convicts who were forced to serve forced labor near Xianyang, Qin Mo Chengshang became more and more worried.

In the eyes of the Mo scholars who advocate frugality, the prevalence of rituals and music, the construction of palaces, and the construction of mountains and tombs are all acts that waste the people's agricultural work and waste money, which are undesirable and useless tasks that should be eliminated.

But even if the son helps Su to admonish, it won't help, let alone the ink who is getting snubbed day by day?

The bird is all hidden, and now the status of the ink in the court is even inferior to those Confucian doctors, at least there are many of them, and there is still soil for continuation in Shandong, but what about Qin Mo? It is almost a rootless wood and a sourceless water, Chu Mo is extinct, Qi Mo is in decline, and Qin Mo suddenly has a feeling of sadness for the dead rabbit and the fox.

Worse is still to come, with the end of the war and the unification of the world, Qin Mo was originally looking forward to a new beginning, but the first emperor's desire was too strong, and he did not have the slightest intention of resting with the people.

Qin Mo was a little disappointed, the only thing they could do was to refuse to contribute to the construction of the palace, and instead put their energy into the construction of the water mill and the water mill. At the same time that Nesteng was promoting noodle among the immigrants, Mo Shi frequently went to Dudong, Shanglin and other Shandong migrant settlements to establish mills and help them build cities and repair houses.

Of course, the Mo-man and the wealthy did not have much in common, but they had a great conversation with the craftsmen from the Kanto region. Through walking in the immigrant city, Qin Mo, who was once confused, seemed to have found a little necessity for his existence......

Cheng Shang was very grateful to Heifu, if it weren't for Heifu's persuasion, he might still be immersed in the tragic war and disappointment with the governance of the empire.

So when Heifu invited, Cheng Shang came over without hesitation.

"The reason why benevolent people do things will prosper the benefits of the world."

He said to Heifu: "Since it is a good thing that is conducive to the reading, literacy, and enlightenment of the people of the world, the ink man should do his best to help!" ”

Hefu was very happy, he had only seen the process of making paper in the documentary, and remembered the general principle. If you want to make the paper come out of nowhere, I am afraid that you will encounter many difficulties, and at this time, you have to turn to the ink practitioner.

He laughed and said, "With the cooperation of the Mo and the craftsmen under the Shaofu General Zuocheng, in terms of skills, I have nothing to worry about." ”

Seeing that Heifu was so happy, the panting fat man on the other side fanned the wind with a fan and said, "If it weren't for Heifu tempting me with an abacus, I wouldn't have come." ”

Heifu visually measured that this guy weighed more than 200 catties, and the fat man hated it the most was midsummer, and in this season of previous years, he hid in the shady storage room to read a book, and no matter what anyone said, he was unwilling to step out of a single step, and he completely became a fat house......

It wasn't until Heifu took out the "abacus" mentioned to Zhang Cang that he reluctantly agreed to go out. This is made by Heifu with the help of Cheng Shang, and the apricot wood frame is embedded with a smooth thin rod, and the rod is strung with flat wooden beads, which can be moved up and down along the thin rod......

Zhang Cang was already obsessed with mathematics and was compiling "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", he got this thing, and Heifu taught him the most basic abacus addition formula, and he immediately fell in love with it.

Of course, don't forget to ask, how did Heifu make this thing?

Fortunately, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a prototype of the abacus "Tao Pill", and Heifu made it up:

"My brother is a disciple in the school, not only to learn the law, but also to learn arithmetic, one day I saw him use a wooden stick to string pottery pills, instead of counting chips, so I had an idea, why not put the wooden stick pottery pills together? I had the idea to make an abacus......"

As for the inspiration for papermaking, Heifu pushed it to the scene of "East Gate Hemp" that he saw when he was inspecting the weaving room in Nangun.

Zhang Cang didn't delve into it, because in just one day, his abacus was already better than Heifu's, and he was constantly developing the multiplication and division abacus formulas that Heifu had returned to the math teacher.

This can't help but make Heifu sigh, genius is genius, handing over this thing to Zhang Cang, it is really the right person.

At this moment, after Zhang Cang relieved himself, he took out the abacus from his arms again, played with it cracklingly, and said casually: "What can I do to come in handy?" ”

"It's really not good to do this without Zi Gu, papermaking is not overnight, from site selection to logging, and then to production, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources, so you need to ask Brother Zi Gu to live within your means, calculate the business merits, time and money."

Heifu wanted to prove to the emperor that the things he made were not only lighter and easier to use than bamboo slips, but also much cheaper than silk silk, so he needed to have a fine bill, and it was only fitting to ask Zhang Cang to do this.

In their project team, Zhang Cang is the planner and accountant, and he does not leave home to process all kinds of data sent by the planner.

Zhang Han is the specific implementer, leading the prisoners and subordinates to work, and communicating with other departments of the Shaofu by the way.

Cheng Shang is the technician, who is responsible for turning Heifu's ideas into reality and solving the problems encountered.

With plenty of manpower, enough budget, and the help of three people, Heifu was a little more confident that he would be able to experiment with writing paper in three months.

"In this way, I don't have to go all the way to summon my sister-in-law to Xianyang."

Heifu doesn't plan to let his family rise again, Nanjun is the safest place in the next ten years, if he has to follow in his footsteps, it will hurt them.

Anyway, things such as military balls and public toilets have left Qin Shi Huang with the impression that he "often comes up with amazing strategies", and he is not afraid of being shocked again and again.

"We're in charge of everything, so what do you do?" At this time, Zhang Cang stopped playing with the abacus and looked at Heifu.

"Me?"

Heifu tapped his head with his index finger and said with a smile: "Of course I'm a laborer!" ”