In order to reassure Cao, Guo Peng also cooperated with them and started a correspondence with Cao Lan.

Guo Peng is not worried about forgery, Cao Lan's handwriting is recognizable to Guo Peng, and Juanxiu's small characters are like Cao Lan's temperament, which is quite cute.

Guo Peng began to practice calligraphy at the age of three, and he practiced the mainstream official script of the Han Dynasty, which was still very different from the regular script he was most familiar with.

But Guo Peng also knows that regular script began to appear in the late Han and early Wei dynasties, and the most representative regular script is Zhong Xuan, who lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, Zhong Hui's father who destroyed Shu Han.

Guo Peng has practiced soft pen calligraphy for seven or eight years, mainly in regular script, and has some experience in calligraphy.

Now that I have changed to practice Han Li, it is still the most orthodox practice method of the late Han scholars, so I naturally feel cordial, and I will get used to it when I practice.

In these years, calligraphy should be practiced with bamboo slips, and the mainstream of writing carriers is bamboo slips.

He has indeed seen the so-called Caihou paper, but to be honest, it is not only expensive, but also has a very bad texture, far less affordable and easy to use than bamboo slips.

It takes a long time for a society-wide habit to be formed, and it takes a long time to replace it.

It was not until more than 100 years before paper replaced bamboo slips and silk cloth as the main writing materials of Chinese literati, and it was not until the Song Dynasty that paper could be mass-produced.

Today's paper is not enough to replace bamboo slips and silk cloth in terms of output and quality, although in some parts of Xuzhou, paper has become a large-scale industry.

Guo Peng likes to practice calligraphy quietly by himself, so when he practices calligraphy, he can devote himself to what he likes to do without thinking too much about the future.

In his spare time, Guo Peng will also practice his most familiar regular script in addition to practicing Han Li, but the practice materials are limited, and the bamboo slips are not available in unlimited quantities.

Therefore, he even adopted some thick bamboo slips to divide everything into two and turn them into four sides, so as to practice calligraphy.

Later, because it was really expensive to do so, a large number of bamboo slips could not be reused after they were written.

So Guo Peng decided to take his five henchmen to open a papermaking workshop in the courtyard of his home, using a large number of discarded bamboo slips as raw materials to make bamboo paper.

The manufacturing process of bamboo paper chosen by Guo Peng is the papermaking process of the Ming Dynasty, which is recorded in the "Heavenly Creation", and Guo Peng took his own private team to secretly carry out it in a small courtyard of Guo's family.

Since he was nine years old, he has been tinkering for about half a year, exploring a set of effective processes, and making a batch of bamboo paper that can be used for writing.

The cost is very low, the raw materials are very good, although the paper is yellowed, but it is very comfortable to write, and there is no discomfort.

However, Guo Peng was very strict and did not allow the five people of Jinmu, Water, Fire and Earth to disclose the news, so that they were not allowed to say a word to the outside world.

Even Guo Dan doesn't know about this matter, he is usually busy with official business, and he really doesn't have much time to care about Guo Peng's private life.

Guo Peng knows very well what kind of impact this craft will bring to this society after it is rolled out on a large scale.

At least until he has a certain amount of power and status, this matter cannot be made public, and it cannot be known to the seventh person except for himself and the five people of Jinmu, Water, Fire and Earth.

Even Guo Dan can't tell him.

This secret must be held in his hands and hidden in his heart until he has enough power and status, and then he can do this thing in one breath and directly bring China into the era of paper.

But if it's just to get people to use paper, it's undoubtedly a very simple thing, as long as the technical problems and mass production problems are solved, and it is not difficult at all.

Now the high-profile disclosure that he can make paper on a large scale is purely looking for death.

It is necessary to wait until it has enough power and status, under the protection of a strong military force, to use absolute power to openly implement it, so that it can be effective and ensure the original intention of this technology.

At present, Guo Peng is only allowed to use it for his own personal use, and use some of it as waste, everything is carried out in Guo's Manor, and he burns it when he runs out, or wipes his buttocks, which is very secret.

Of course, ordinary correspondence is made of bamboo slips, rarely silk cloth or silk, and the more than 20 letters written to Cao Lan are all written in bamboo slips, which tell about what they have done, and what they miss her.

To be reasonable, writing love letters, Guo Peng is quite proficient.

This is not to say that he wrote it himself, Guo Peng has long been out of such low-level interests.

It's just because of his good writing and beautiful handwriting, so when he was in school in his previous life, he often asked him to help write love letters, which not only earned pocket money, but also exercised his ability to speak meaty words and false and empty words.

A regular fake and empty love letter article is done in one go, and then it is easy to earn a small amount of money and snacks.

Then he continued to develop new customers, maintain old customers, eat and drink sweet, this experience made Guo Peng deeply realize very early on that reading changes fate and knowledge is the truth of wealth.

The ancients' ability to talk about love is not low at all, and it is not weaker than modern people in parallel comparison, and don't think that only today's people can play love letters and talk about love.

But this skill is confined to the community of scholars.

The literacy rate in ancient China has long been no more than one percent, and most of them are sharpening their heads when they should be pursuing love, so there are relatively few people who can write love letters, say love words, and have the leisure time to do this, so that some good love letters and love poems can still be handed down.

This shows that Guo Peng's ability to write love letters and tell love stories is extraordinary.

Anyway, the love words in the love letter written by Guo Peng can always make Cao Xiaomei, who has just opened her love, her cheeks flush and her eyes are full of spring water, and she can't help but imagine how happy she will be in three years.

She really feels very happy, very happy, and able to marry her sweetheart.

And what happened behind all this, she didn't know, maybe she didn't want to know at all, she just wanted to spend her life in the arms of her sweetheart, and that was enough.

Although it is not easy.

Troubled times are coming, and far-sighted people have more or less sensed some signs, and those without foresight are still chattering about some trivial things.

Guo Peng is a person who clearly knows that such a thing will happen, so he does more and more deliberately.

In the past, it was difficult to say anything if it wasn't the Cao family, but now that the relationship is confirmed, Guo Peng will not treat himself as an outsider.

And the more he doesn't treat himself as an outsider, the happier the Cao family is.

Just like when he saw Cao Ren secretly running out to play with Cao Chun but not studying and practicing calligraphy seriously, Guo Peng was very angry.

So, he carried a stick and beat Cao Ren and Cao Chun from the front yard to the back yard, angrily accusing them of having books to read but not reading seriously, which is simply unfilial!

He used "unfilial piety" to angrily reprimand Cao Ren and Cao Chun, saying that their father Cao Chi worked hard in the capital to become an official in order to give them books to read, but they wasted their time fighting cocks and lackeys, and completely ignored everything created by their fathers, which was an unfilial act.

Because Guo Peng has prestige in the children's group, and Cao Ren and Cao Chun have always listened to Guo Peng's words, they didn't dare to fight back when they were scolded, and they didn't dare to fight back when they were beaten, so they honestly followed Guo Peng to read and write together.

If you can't read the scriptures and read the military books, you have to read them with Guo Peng anyway.

Cao Yin found that Guo Peng's anger was actually more effective than his own anger, so he asked Guo Peng to be interested in some other Cao family children, such as Cao Hong and Cao De.

There are also elders in the Xiahou family who came to ask Guo Peng, asking if they can take some of the children of the Xiahou family to study or something.

Guo Peng said that it was difficult to start when he was older than himself, so he could only persuade that Cao Ren and Cao Chun were younger than him in order to have such an effect, and he could only do his best.

He did the same thing, Cao Hong and Cao De were younger than him, and Ping Su also ran behind his ass, so his persuasion was more effective.

Although Xiahou Yuan was older, Xiahou Yuan also admired Guo Peng's courage, so he listened to it somewhat.

As for Xiahoudun, he was only one year younger than Cao Cao, and without waiting for the elders in the family to persuade him to study hard, he packed his luggage and ran to Dunqiu to find Cao Cao.

He and Cao Cao were very close.

He is a person who "loves learning" and "respects teachers", or is more righteous.

When he was fourteen years old, because someone humiliated Xiahoudun's teacher, he killed that person in a fit of rage and committed homicide, and later Cao Cao asked Cao Song to help him settle this matter and avoid prison, and since then he has been very friendly with Cao Cao.

Guo Peng doesn't care, he can do as much as he can do this kind of thing, and whether he does it well or not is not something that the Cao family can force.

And in a few months, he will go to Luoyang, this is the time to study honestly, and he doesn't want to stand out at this time.

It was also at this time that Cao Song heard that Guo Peng's ice fishing in his hometown was presented to his stepmother in his hometown, which was very open and widely praised in the major families in Luoyang, and he immediately realized that this was an excellent opportunity.

So he spent a lot of money to get through the relationship with Shang Shutai, reported Guo Peng's name, and donated some money by relying on the relationship with Lu Qiang, a regular servant, to remove the obstacles of eunuchs for Guo Peng.

Guo Peng's entry into Taixue to become a boy has become a sure thing.