Xu Xing gasped and was hit hard for a while. There are more than 100 people, this is still the remaining disciples of the Mo family, and the Mo family is worthy of being one of the two major scholars.

Since he dared to let these people participate in the assessment, he was naturally sure to let these people pass the assessment, after all, this time he was only selecting subordinate officials, and the difficulty was not very high.

In one county, there are only three county Yin, county Cheng, and county lieutenants appointed by the king of Chu himself. Even if you add other low-level subordinates, it is more than ten people.

Because this time, all the subordinate officials will be fixed, so that they will not take office with the county Yin and leave together. Therefore, the subordinate officials required in each county are as few as two, and as many as several or even more than ten people, only depending on what the county needs to do.

In this way, if all the more than 100 people of the Mo family are selected, they can completely fill the vacancies in more than ten counties or even twenty counties.

Thinking about it, Xu Xing suddenly rejoiced a lot, fortunately, Chen Liang, the great Confucian of Chu State, died more than ten years ago, and many Confucian disciples were scattered, and his strength was greatly weakened. Otherwise, just the two schools of Confucianism and Mo, plus the strength of the Taoist family of Chu State, will surpass the two schools of Confucianism and Mo by a lot.

Xu Xing made a rough calculation in his heart, if all the students of Taoism also participated in the assessment, plus the people from all over the world, maybe the competition in this assessment would be very fierce.

Thinking about it, Xu Xing couldn't help but laugh at himself a little sadly, compared with the Mo family, his own school, which has been inherited for hundreds of years, is like a child who has just learned to walk.

He noticed Xu Xing's expression and explained: "Why should Xu Zi be like this, when you and I make the paper that the king said, it will be far easier to copy the classics than now, not as time-consuming, laborious and expensive as now." At that time, will Xu Zi still worry about the strong university faction? ”

Hearing this, Xu Xing looked at his teeth with a confused look in his eyes, and asked: "Gong Yin, over the years, we have mobilized countless manpower and material resources, and most of your outstanding disciples of the Mo family have also invested in the development of 'paper'. Calculating the time, it has been almost ten years since the beginning of the development of Dao. It's just that, ten years later, I just got some semi-finished products that couldn't be used. ”

As he spoke, Xu Xing's face showed a pessimistic look, and he sighed: "The old decay is almost the age of the sixtieth year, according to the current process, I don't know if I can see this kind of paper that only needs to be written with a pen and does not need to be carved at all." ”

Hearing this, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, just a moment later, his eyes became firm again, a trace of ruddy appeared on his face, and he said with confidence: "Why should Xu Zi hesitate, ten years ago, the king obtained the method of making glass and paper, and let Sikong and Zai develop it." Nowadays, the production of glass has long been no problem, and craftsmen have been able to make glass skillfully.

This shows that there is no problem with the king's method of making it. ”

As he spoke, he sighed and said: "It's just that glass is different from paper, although glass is scarce, no matter where the swordsmith is or where the warlock is, it can be refined occasionally, but the secret recipe has not been found." Therefore, the production method of colored glass is traceable, and it is only necessary to keep experimenting with the formula.

Paper is different, unheard of before, unseen, neither experience to learn from, nor the direction of progress, we need to explore from scratch. It is precisely because the direction is difficult to find that a lot of manpower and material resources are wasted. ”

Speaking of this, he smiled and said with a smile as he walked towards the wooden frame on the side of the workshop: "Fortunately, after nearly eight or nine years of exploration, we have made the first piece of paper and have found the way forward, and the rest is to continue to improve the paper to the extent that it can be written." ”

As he spoke, he came to the wooden shelf, and then opened a large wooden box on the wooden shelf, revealing a yellow-black piece of paper preserved by wax.

Looking at this piece of paper, he remembered the circumstances of obtaining this paper, and suddenly smiled.

Although this paper is very thick, the thickness of three sheets of paper is almost equal to the thickness of cowhide, although this paper cannot be written, the ink drips and is absorbed by the paper, although this paper is very hard and brittle, and it will break if you pinch it hard.

However, this is the first piece of paper that the craftsmen have carefully developed, which means that they have found their way forward.

Thinking about it, he said proudly: "Xu Zi, now that we have found the secret recipe, I believe that in a few years, we can make paper that can be used." At that time, the time to copy a book will be extremely fast, less than one-tenth of what it is now. ”

Xu Xing looked at the teeth full of confidence, and still shook his head with no confidence: "Gong Yin, although this thing may be easy to write, it is like silk cloth." However, I am worried that the price of paper will be much more expensive than wooden tablets, and even comparable to silk cloth. ”

Hearing this, his face was heavy, and he knew what Xu Xing was talking about.

It's not because of the raw materials of paper, the raw materials of paper are just wood and bamboo, which are not valuable. Xu Xing is talking about the production time of paper, the production of each piece of paper, it takes several months, such a long time, even if the raw materials of paper are cheap, but the price of paper is not cheap.

It is for this reason that the research and development of paper is difficult, which greatly delays the experiment of paper.

When firing glass, it took a few days to carry out an experiment and improvement, but paper took several months for an experiment and a few months for improvement. It is precisely because of this that after getting the first piece of paper last year, there has been no breakthrough again.

Thinking about it, he said with a firm gaze: "Xu Zi rest assured, as long as we can get a piece of paper that can be written, as long as we continue to improve the production process, the price of paper will be lower..."

When Xu Xing heard this, he hesitated a little and also had some expectations.

On the other hand, Taixuezhong.

Huan Yuan, who was already old, read the letter sent by the king of Chu, and immediately wrote several letters, and then instructed his disciples: "Go quickly and send these letters to the friends who are teachers, and tell them that the king of Chu is recruiting talents..."

On that day, the Yingdu Hotel was overcrowded for a while, some participated in the self-recommendation assessment, some accompanied the wait-and-see, and some came to see the excitement.

Early the next morning, Xiong Huai got the list that Jing Cui took from the hotel, and after a cursory look, he was overjoyed and said, "Ling Yin, is this true?" Yesterday alone, more than 300 people came forward to recommend themselves. ”

Xiong Huai looked incredulous, shocked by the number of people.

The corners of Jing Cui's mouth twitched when he heard this, he received a report from the person in charge of reception in the hotel yesterday, and his two inferior guests secretly went to sign up!

Then, thinking of the huge group of Mo family children yesterday, the corners of his mouth twitched again, and he nodded in response: "Back to the king, it is true, there were more than 300 people who came forward to recommend themselves yesterday, and after a simple assessment, all of them are literate. ”

"Good, good, good!" Xiong Huai let out a breath and said with a smile: "If you are so widowed, you can rest assured that you can wait until November." ”

Saying that, Xiong Huai added silently: There is also the October New Year!

https:

Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.