The second year of Hongwu was a year of good weather for the Qi country, which was mainly agricultural.

This year's harvest is much better than last year's, and with the gradual maturity of farming technology, Qi's agricultural production has been completely on the right track.

Coupled with the use of guano as a natural compound fertilizer, although the yield is far from the modern agriculture of later generations, it is not much higher than the highest yield of ancient societies of 5,000 years.

Food is the national strength of this era, and only when you have a full stomach can you reproduce more people.

Qi encourages childbearing, and now adult men have formed families, except for the officials of Qi State, ordinary people are generally only monogamous, which is not a policy restriction of Qi State, but a spontaneous behavior of the people.

Yang Hao estimated that this situation would not last long, and when the Qi Kingdom slowly became rich, men with some savings would definitely find a few more women to carry on the lineage for themselves.

Although the people have no culture, they are not stupid, and they will also take into account their own affordability in terms of having children, and if they have too many children, their quality of life will be reduced, and no one will do such a stupid thing.

There are many pregnant women in Qi this year, and I believe that soon, many new lives will come to this world.

The autumn harvest is busy but happy, looking at the carts of grain and vegetables, the whole Qi country seems to be filled with the joy of harvest.

Maybe God is really sheltering the Qi country in this year.

When the country of Qi was about to complete the harvest, the papermaking technology, which had been stagnant for a long time, finally made a major breakthrough.

After consuming countless weeds and bamboos, Yang Hao's papermaking workshop finally produced a piece of straw paper in the true sense of the word.

When the craftsman carefully handed the piece of straw paper to Yang Hao's hands, Yang Hao's hands trembled.

For many years, this piece of papyrus was the thing he had ever seen in this era, most like another time and space.

The yellowed papyrus was so rough that it could not be used for writing, but it was an epoch-making progress.

Yang Hao praised the craftsmen who participated in the production of paper, and he couldn't wait to experience the charm of a handful of straw paper.

Looking at the straw paper thrown into the toilet, Yang Hao grinned and smirked.

The first paper in the real sense, the fate after its birth is actually like this, I don't know if the future generations of this time and space will have a sentence about whether the mother sells batches and should not talk about it.

When straw paper is made, it means that it is not far from paper that can truly write.

Yang Hao asked the craftsmen to stop using dry grass as raw material and use all wood chips and bamboo for production, and continued to experiment with the differences in paper produced by different materials.

He had to choose the most suitable and cheap paper from among them, and only cheap and practical could the knowledge spread quickly.

As for the straw paper, Yang Hao has not planned to promote it to the people, ordinary people just wipe their buttocks with stones and sticks, as for him as the king of a country, if it is still like this, wouldn't he have a ** share, so in his thoughts, the straw paper can only be used as a tribute for the time being, only for the palace.

This is the first time in so many years that he has been so blatantly profiting for himself, because he has had enough of wiping his ass so disgustingly now, which is unbearable or unbearable, which is a big thing that affects his appetite very much.

Affect appetite, it will be bad for his dragon body, if the dragon body is sick, then how can he lead the development of the times, at the smallest, it is not responsible for himself, at the largest, it is a sinner of mankind.

Yang Hao was so relieved that he found a high-sounding reason for his ** life.

It is a gratifying thing that papermaking has tension, Yang Hao is a doer, since the paper has eyebrows, then the matching printing must be carried out simultaneously.

Printing is not a complicated thing for modern people at all.

In Yang Hao's impression, the ancient movable type printing was divided into lead movable type, wooden movable type, clay movable type and so on.

He hadn't studied the difference, but he didn't care.

All he wanted was to improve efficiency, as for the quality of the printing, it was not his main concern at all, in his opinion, printing, as long as it can ensure that the handwriting is not blurred, can be recognized as a success.

As for the clarity of the seal, that is to consider things in the future, what the current Qi country wants is efficiency, what it wants is stupid and simple, and any exquisite art is dispensable.

From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, the country of Qi has been running wild on the road of practicality like clockwork.

As the saying goes, if something is good at the top, it will be very bad at the bottom, Yang Hao is like this, and so are the officials and people of Qi State.

What artistic behavior is so few that there is almost none, and the development of human art is often inseparable from religion, but today's Great Qi basically has no religious beliefs, except for Yang Hao who came up with an unwarranted Buzhou Mountain, as well as the Tai Chi gossip theory, and even the primitive god totem worship has gradually disappeared in the territory of Qi.

Like the Chinese ancestors of later generations, the current state of Qi is that when praying, if God happens to satisfy his prayers, then this God is naturally worthy of fear, if after praying, there is no effect, then I still worship you, and a thief God scolded back.

Yang Hao wants to know what kind of culture will evolve in this ancient land after he has made this start thousands of years later, and he estimates that it will be very interesting.

Qi State's current writing is about two or three thousand words, in addition to a large part of these characters are simplified Chinese characters, and some of them are words made up by Yang Hao, Yang Hao is not ashamed of his semi-literate behavior but is proud, anyway, no one in this era knows how to write the correct text.

If the scientists who studied the origin of writing in later generations would be extremely concerned about this, there would be no law at all for these random fabricated words, and they could only sigh that the ancients had strange brains.

The sorting of words, Yang Hao let all departments participate together, although thousands of words are not much, but it is also a rather cumbersome project, which can not have repeated words, and must be arranged according to certain rules.

This is equivalent to compiling a simple dictionary, which is not a simple matter.

Therefore, Yang Hao gave a lot of time, for half a year, he believed that half a year was enough, and after the completion of paper and printing, it would be twice the result with half the effort to spend a lot of manpower to compile a dictionary in the real sense.

At the beginning of October of the second year of Hongwu, after the autumn harvest was completely completed in Daqi, and the taxes and donated materials were collected, Yang Hao recruited nearly 3,000 people from the three cities to start the construction of the dam.