"Fake Shaofu Cheng Heifu, what have you been doing lately?"

In the Linguang Palace of Ganquan Mountain, Li Si raised his head and looked at Li Tong, the middle son who had just come from Xianyang. Neither asked him how his family was doing in the past half a month, nor did he ask what the letter sent by his eldest son Li You from Changsha County said, but he was inexplicably concerned about Heifu, who was rarely mentioned in the past.

Although Li Tong felt strange, he still arched his hand and said: "Father, after that Heifu became the Shaofu Prince, he first walked with Zhang Shaorong in the area near the water around Xianyang, and set up a workshop near the pickaxe pond. Then he asked Shaofu Yuan Cheng for the wood of the five gardens. ”

Li Si bowed his head: "So, in this way, he threatened in front of His Majesty that the things he wanted to create were made of trees, just like the slips?" ”

Li Tongdao: "I also heard that those trees were all soaked in the pickaxe pond, but then, Heifu actually sent thousands of craftsmen and subordinates home, saying that they would come back after planting wheat, and there were only more than 100 people left. ”

He couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty only gave Heifu three months, and this son is not in a hurry at all?" I think he has been too smooth in the palace in the past few months, and he is a little drifting! Otherwise, why did you go to the Nesten Mansion again and again, but all of them came to visit my house? I'm afraid that this Qianshou has long forgotten, who can he rely on to support him today? ”

"Confused."

Li Si reprimanded Zhongzi, and he saw that although Li Tong was taught by himself after coming to Xianyang, his political wisdom was much worse than that of his eldest son Li You.

Not only Heifu, but also Zhang Han, Zhang Cang and other people who were protected and promoted by Li Si did not run to the Li family much in private.

There are many friends, and there are many friends inside and outside, although there are big mistakes, there are many of them!

Li Si needs to maintain his image as a "non-party", not a "well-known minister" who is full of guests and friends and widely spreads the party.

Unlike the confused neutron, he saw that although Heifu did not give him a gift, he was deliberately pulling Zhang Cang, Zhang Han and other people who were deeply marked by Li Si to do things.

This is exactly what Li Si meant, Zhang Cang is indifferent to fame and fortune, for Zhang Han, although Li Si appreciates it, there is no reason to promote him beyond his authority, if Zhang Han can rub the credit of Heifu, it is not a good thing.

"But Hefu is so good at traveling, can he really get things done?" Li Tong was a little unconvinced.

"Uncle Ru once said that although this person is from a humble background, he is extremely knowledgeable, very reliable in his work, and never without purpose."

Li Si faintly felt that Heifu was the same kind of person as him, unwilling to be in a lowly position, unwilling to live like a frightened rat in the toilet all day long! Desperate to break away from the original class and climb the mountain of power.

Now, the toilet rat is in the warehouse, and whether he can shine depends on whether he can seize the opportunity.

"If it is really as he said, it is really a great achievement for Qin to successfully produce paper that is as light as silk and as cheap as wood!"

As a court lieutenant, Li Si knew very well that one of the major differences between the Qin system and the Six Kingdoms was that he insisted on "clerical administration".

In the miscellaneous laws of internal history that Li Si personally added, he pointed out: "If there is something to ask, you must write it, don't ask for it, don't ask for it." "No matter how small the matter, the subordinate must report to the superior in the form of a written document, and must not report the matter orally.

In addition, there is a provision in the Golden Cloth Law, "If the official loses, the year of the calculation shall be announced in writing, and the recipient shall be counted as the recipient." "When the government sends goods, it should be notified by document of the year of its issuance, and the recipient should keep the account according to the time of receipt, so that not only can it be accurately calculated, but also the responsibility can be traced.

This kind of "clerical administration" is widely practiced in various counties, so a large number of bamboo and wood slips are needed every year. However, Jian Mu was cumbersome, Hugh said that the people who carried it, and even Li Si was tired from reading the law books and begging from the county every day. It is also inconvenient to store and transport, a roll of bamboo books takes up too much space, and the so-called five cars of Xuefu are just hundreds of thousands of words.

With the unification of the world, the government affairs handled by the central government and counties increased day by day, and the inconvenience of the slip was more obvious......

"This is also the reason why Your Majesty attaches so much importance to this matter, Heifu, you are right!"

Li Si admires smart people very much, and is not worried that Heifu will get out of his control after he is favored.

Unlike Han Fei, who must be used by Qin, Heifu is too low and too young, and he will be a county guard in the next ten years, which is not enough to pose a threat to Li Si, but can become an ally of his heirs......

"After you return to Xianyang, you must pay attention to Heifu's every move and report to me often."

Li Si instructed Li Tong like this, and then opened the letter sent by Li You from thousands of miles away......

His brow furrowed immediately, because the letter was written during the march, and it also revealed some details that were not described in the official documents of Dongting County.

"The Yue people of Dongting County were instigated by the remnants of Xiyue and Chu to oppose Qin with their cities!"

After reading it, Li Si sneered: "The major event of the two counties of Dongting and Changsha guarding the police, the Dongting County Guard only said that it was a small tribal riot? It seems that the south is not peaceful! ”

……

Ho Chi is located near the site of the old capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Hojing, and now there is no longer a city-state of Hehezong Zhou, only foxes wandering in the ruins, and a field of golden millet.

Hefu also set up his base camp for papermaking here, because it was not only a place where water could be built, but also a pond to soak the trees that had been transported.

It was July, and the women in the neighborhood gathered kudzu from the fields and soaked them in the pond to prepare for weaving winter clothes.

"To build a house and build a ship, the wood must be dried, and these officials are so strange that they actually soak it in water!"

After soaking the trees, Heifu left them alone, and even sent more than 1,000 craftsmen and captives recruited from nearby to return home, and let them come back after planting wheat, leaving only more than 100 subordinates on standby.

In this regard, Zhang Han was so anxious that he was about to get angry, but Heifu was not in a hurry, but asked Zhang Han to send someone to go to the east and west weaving rooms under the jurisdiction of Shaofu, these two weaving rooms are responsible for collecting silkworm cocoons, weaving and embroidering the clothes of the suburban temple, and there, sure enough, he found what Heifu wanted......

What appeared in front of Zhang Han and Cheng Shang was a light sheet, which felt like silk silk, but it was not a complete piece of cloth.

Zhang Han didn't know it, but Cheng Shang said: "This thing is called Hehua hè ti in Guanzhong." ”

"However, in Nanjun, it is called Fang Su."

Heifu laughed: "It seems that in Brother Cheng's house, every summer, there is also the sound of weaving in the machine!" ”

Cheng Shang sighed and said: "My mother raised me with the business of sericulture and weaving, how can I not know? ”

Heifu bowed his head: "I am the same, my father died early, my mother and sister-in-law got up early to raise silkworms and weave silk, but those soft silk silks were sold to the county, and they never wore them on their bodies......"

The "square flocculent" that Heifu asked from the weaving room is the product of sericulture, and the high-quality silkworm cocoons can be directly extracted, and those evil cocoons and sick cocoons are not willing to be thrown, put into the boiling water, and the silk is taken by bleaching.

After the bleaching is completed, there are often some residues left on the mat, and after a few times, it will accumulate into a layer of fiber flakes, which will be dried and peeled off in the sun, which is the Heyun and square flocculation in front of you.

Zhang Han was born in a wealthy family, he had no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, and he had ready-made silk embroidery to wear, of course, he didn't have the opportunity to know this thing, and he didn't understand what it had to do with papermaking.

In order to answer his question, Heifu took pen and ink and wrote on the square flocculation board by step.

Cheng Shang explained: "In the House of the Weaver Girl, Heyun is used to worship the ancestors, and before the sacrifice, people who are literate are often invited to write some eulogies on it. In fact, he was reluctant to burn cloth, so he replaced it with this object. ”

He also suddenly realized: "Heifu said that he wanted to make paper that was lighter than Jane and cheaper than cloth, could it be Heyi?" ”

Immediately, Cheng Shang shook his head in self-denial: "I'm afraid not, there are too few Heyi, and I can only get one after dozens of drifts." ”

"It's just that the principle is similar, and that's what I got from it."

Heifu picked up the writing and slowly tore it apart with the force of his hand.

Hewan cracked from the center, and the silk fiber was torn loose, and Heifu put it on the table and asked Cheng Shang to take a closer look.

"If you look closely, you will know that the so-called silk silk, as well as this Heyi, is actually just a combination of countless fine waddles, which can also be called silk fibers."

He also pointed to the women in the pond outside the door: "After the peasant women collect the stalks of kudzu, they soak the peeled hemp skin in water for half a month, and finally the hemp skin is loose, and then they can extract the fine floc one by one, and these fine floc are hemp fibers." ”

"To put it bluntly, whether it is silk silk and kudzu hemp, or common mulberry skin and cherry skin, they are all composed of countless fibers."

Therefore, since the fine flocs of silk silk can be flattened and dried to become a wrinkle, which can be used for writing, the bark, hemp and cloth, and fishing nets composed of fine wadding are also chopped and mashed, and then flattened and dried, and may also be able to write! That's what I'm going to do! ”

Zhang Han suddenly said: "It turns out that you asked us to cut down the wood, and what you want is the bark, not the wood!" ”

Although wood and paper making was the mainstream in later generations, Heifu felt that with the current level of iron tools in the Qin State, it was still a little difficult to pulp. In addition, three months is not enough to rot the wood, not to mention that there are many processes in the future, so it is better to start with simpler bark paper and hemp paper......

Cheng Shang also understood, and he patted his thigh: "Zi Mozi said in the Book of Ink that the body is divided into both." Everything can be divided, but there are also inseparable times, this is called the end, it seems that this fine wool fiber, is the end of silk, silk, mulberry, hemp skin and other things, right? ”

Heifu was stunned when he heard it, the secret Dao Mozi is so powerful, he proposed that matter is composed of tiny particles two hundred years ago?

However, when Cheng Shang was surprised that Heifu also knew the profound knowledge that Zi Mozi had comprehended, Heifu shook his head and said, "This is not some esoteric knowledge, nor is it Heifu's work." ”

He pointed to the peasant women who were working and laughing by the pickaxe pond outside the house, and said with a smile: "It's just a simple idea from the Weaver Girl's drifting mother, and the son of the head of the Weaver Room understands simple things. ”

Regardless of the ancient and future generations, many inventions have been attributed to the heads of saints and sages, as if there is no flint, there will be no fire in the world, and the world will live in darkness forever; Without Houji, the people of the world would not know how to grow crops, and they would have to drink blood forever; Without Mengtian, the Chinese would not be able to use a brush; Without Cai Lun, the paper would not have appeared.

But Heff thought otherwise, that they were just standing on the shoulders of giants at the right time, to use a cliché......

"All this comes from the wisdom of working people!"