Bazhou Thorn History, Xiyang County Gongyu Wenwen, who entered the Beijing face saint, bowed to the Son of Heaven during the court meeting, and cried blood on Chen wanted to avenge the clan.

Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County, as well as Gongyu Wenliang of Qiguo and Shiziyu Wenming are the only remaining adult clans of the Zhou State, and since Yang Wei usurped power, more than 50 Zhou clans have been killed, so Yuwen Wen's sad and angry mood is very understandable:

What could be more grief and indignation than prostrating oneself until one faints?

The Son of Heaven warmly retained the Duke of Xiyang, and when he saw that he was overly sad and fainted on the spot, he sent a car to escort him back to the embassy, and sent the imperial doctor to the palace to diagnose the disease, and transferred precious herbs from the palace for occasional recuperation.

The imperial court also made corresponding arrangements to make the mansion no longer receive other officials, so that the Xiyang County public could recuperate from their injuries.

As for the rumors that Yuwen made Jun kowtow excessively, causing brain problems, crooked mouth and eyes every day, and incontinence, the imperial court denounced such rumors, calling them rumors spread by Yang Zhixi.

Inside the palace, Yu Wenwen, who has become a fool according to the outside world, is concentrating on "pulling the list", the bruise on his forehead has calmed down, and there is no abnormality except for the traces of black green.

There were several people standing in front of him, first the head of the guard, Zhang Dingfa, then the lord Bo Zhengtong, and the rest were his own people in the house, and at this time, Yuwen Wen was making a major arrangement.

"It's inconvenient to go out these days, so I'll leave the matter of procurement to you." Yu Wenwen said.

"Lang Jun, when will the glass mirror be sold on the capital side?" Zhang Dingfa asked, you have to spend money to buy things, or barter, this time Yuwen Wen came all the way to Yecheng, bringing a number of glass mirrors worth 10,000 yuan, waiting to be sold in Yecheng for money.

"Shopkeeper Liu is doing it, and it will be settled tomorrow, so don't worry about money, although Yecheng is in the north, the copper money is also very useful, don't worry about the other party not charging copper money."

"Envoy, I want to come to Yecheng Bookstore a lot, but I don't know the path when I first arrive, I don't know if the government can send someone to help with one or two, so as not to let the officials and others search around, but they don't know the essentials." Zheng Tong said.

"It's okay, the imperial court has arranged manpower, and you will come to the embassy in the afternoon, and you will communicate with him about relevant matters at that time."

"There are many kinds of books in the government's collection, but I don't know if I can lend them, after all, it takes a lot of time to copy books, and I am afraid that the officials in charge will not let go."

"This matter has also been negotiated with the imperial court, and the matter has now been negotiated, if there is not enough manpower, you can communicate with the government and let them arrange for someone to copy the book by hand, as for the cost, everything is easy to say, you just have to pay the bill." Yuwen Wen said with a wave of his hand.

"Errors and omissions in the manuscript are inevitable, time is in a hurry, and the lower officials are afraid of errors and omissions if they can't check it."

"As long as it's not too outrageous, a few typos don't matter."

"If there is no real book, you have to copy it now, I don't know what the deadline is?"

"Within a month, you can increase the price appropriately, but you have to beware of the other party asking when the official will leave." Yuwen Wen specially explained, "Also, be careful not to be alone when traveling, so as not to be abducted by someone and kill yourself." ”

"Especially Shopkeeper Liu, you have a glass mirror in your hand, you must be careful when traveling, don't be swallowed by red-eyed wealthy businessmen."

"Yes!" The crowd replied.

Yu Wenwen implemented things one by one, he is now 'injured' and resting in the embassy, and even the matter of entering the palace to meet the Son of Heaven has been postponed, if he goes out shopping lively, it will be too much.

So he arranged for his subordinates to go shopping separately, and the shopping list had been drawn up overnight when he was in Bazhou, waiting to "buy, buy, buy" now.

Yecheng, Yu Wenwen didn't want to come, so in order to turn bad things into good things, he drew up a complicated shopping list, and wanted to take the opportunity of a business trip to contribute to his 'farming' career.

Compared with Chang'an and Luoyang, Yecheng's economic level is also not inferior, thanks to the previous confrontation between Zhou and Qi, the end of the Silk Road is not only in Chang'an, but also in Yecheng.

The business is thriving, so the flow of goods is large, and the goods trafficked from the Western Regions and the far west are also dazzling in Yecheng, so Yuwenwen will not let go of this opportunity.

There are a lot of things to buy, but the focus is on three categories: horses, seeds, and books.

The first task is to buy horses, there is no horse production land in Shannan Prefectures, and the source of war horses is only purchased, and now the imperial court will definitely allocate war horses to Shannan, but no one will dislike more horses, so Yuwenwen will not let go of this opportunity.

Yecheng has a horse market, and Yuwenwen has money, so he can buy as many as he wants, and those stallions that have not been gelding, the more the merrier, he is in a small horse ranch in Bazhou, and he needs stallions to breed the population.

In the Yangtze River Basin, the horse breeds seen on weekdays are all Sichuan horses or mountain horse breeds similar to the Yunnan horse, and it is rare to have the opportunity to come to the famous northern city, so Yuwenwen naturally wants to go to the horse market to buy frantically.

Buying a horse is a science, laymen rashly enter the market except for being pitted there is no second choice, it is easy to spend a lot of money to buy back is a horse, Yuwenwen has a lot of lackeys in Chang'an Flying Eagle, and he has seen a lot of famous horses and horses, barely half a bucket of water experts, but it is still difficult to buy a horse alone and someone has to help.

The helper is the former horse bandit boss Zhang Dingfa, who has dealt with horses a lot and has a lot of experience, although he is vague about his experience before being a horse bandit, but Yu Wenwen knows that this archer is skillful, and he thinks he has military experience.

Zhang Dingfa spoke with a faint northernal accent, and he did not shy away from saying that he was quite familiar with Yecheng, Yuwen Wen did not plan to make a big show about this trip, but his wife Wei Chi Chifan was worried about his personal safety, so he sent "industry experts" Zhang Dingfa to accompany the guard, and the safety of the mansion was handed over to Yuwen Fifteen and Fu Youcai to be responsible.

Therefore, Yu Wenwen handed over the responsibility of buying horses to Zhang Dingfa, who is a native of Yecheng and has a lot of dealings with horses, so he sees that Ma Xiangma has a high level, and by the way, he asked Zhou Faming to help refer to it, after all, the other party has to buy something in Yecheng this time, and it is natural to buy horses.

By the way, let Bazhou Tu Turtle Tian Yilong see the world.

Buying horses is a priority, conducive to war, and buying seeds is conducive to farming, that is, farming, how to use limited land to increase production and income is the focus of Yuwenwen's attention, this time to the north, millet and wheat seeds are naturally to buy, and the seeds of other crops are also purchased.

In particular, the crops that are only available in the north, such as "Liaodong red sorghum", "Rongshu", "Goguryeo bean" and other northern crops, Liaodong red sorghum is the red rice eaten by Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, and Rongshu and Goguryeo beans are soybean varieties domesticated and cultivated in the northeast, which are all what Yuwenwen wants to get.

Well, in later terms, this kind of behavior is called "seeking seeds".

Anyway, he has to look for things that are closely related to the cultivation war, and he has to look for them in Yecheng, and buy them if he has anything, anyway, the glass mirror he brought is worth no less than 10,000 yuan, and it is enough to buy these things.

If you want to practice the "magic skills" of farming and warfare, you must have the help of cheats, so buying books is also a big deal, Yecheng is the capital of the old Qi country, the place where the Shandong scholars and family valves gather, and the corresponding books are in great demand, so you can find books that are not available in the south of the Yangtze River.

The cheats that Yuwenwen wants to buy are related to farming and warfare, and as for what Buddhist scriptures are exempt, so "Qi Min Yaoshu", which was written decades ago, bears the brunt, and other books like this are the focus of purchase.

Written in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it has been about 40 years so far, which records the production technology knowledge of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, sideline and other departments in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and is one of the five major agricultural books of the Central Plains in later generations.

The book cites nearly 200 kinds of ancient books, and summarizes the methods of agronomy, horticulture, afforestation, sericulture, animal husbandry, veterinary, breeding, brewing, cooking, storage, and famine control over the past few hundred years.

It also includes the processing of agricultural and sideline products (such as brewing), food processing, and the production of stationery and daily necessities. Finally, there are many "non-Central Plains products", that is, vegetables and fruits that are not produced in the north.

Although from the perspective of later generations, the knowledge recorded in "Qi Min Yaoshu" is somewhat 'backward', but for this era, this book records all practical techniques, so Yu Wenwen, who is determined to farm, needs to use it as a tool book to guide various agriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry production.

Then the question arises: where can you buy such a treasure book? The answer is that the chance of buying it in Yecheng will be greater.

In this era, it is easy and not easy to buy books, the easy thing is that there are more bookstores that sell books in big cities, and the difficult thing is that many books you can name may not be sold, because booksellers may not have ready-made books.

In this era, printing technology was not yet developed, not to mention movable type printing, that is, even engraving printing did not appear, and books could only be circulated by handcopying, so it was inconvenient to buy "non-mainstream" books, so you had to go to the maid to buy books, or order them in bookstores specializing in the sale of related books.

"Qi Min Yaoshu" was "published" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, so the chance of encountering it in Yecheng is relatively large, of course, only manuscripts can be bought.

Hand-copied books are also known as "maid books", people who make a living to copy books to subsidize the family are helpers, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the pen from Rong Ban Chao, cast is the pen of the helper, his family is poor to give the government to the book (copying) for a living, copying books is very hard, so there is a feeling and send "pen from Rong".

There are two kinds of helpers: official helpers and helpers. Ban Chao is for the official maid book, that is, the government pays money, hire people to copy books, the other is private money, hire people to copy books, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Wu minister Kan Ze has been poor since childhood, and often works for people, which belongs to the latter situation.

During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the phenomenon of relying on books (copying books) for a living was only occasional, indicating that such phenomena were not common at that time, and from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, with the increasing demand for books, the scale of the book service industry has also increased day by day.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were frequent turmoil, and various regimes gathered classics on a large scale in order to expand their power and learn from the rule of capital, so the demand for other aspects under this policy also stimulated the development of the copying industry.

During this period, literature, historiography, and metaphysics were developed, and various masters were produced, who wrote a large number of works, which had to be quickly and widely disseminated by scribes, and other scholars were inspired to create more works, which also led to an increase in private book collections and stimulated the demand for books.

Then there is the need for official and private education, in this era, the official school is in flux, some states and counties have set up county schools, township schools, and recruit apprentices, and private schools have always been very prosperous, literati and scholars open the door to accept apprentices, it is not uncommon, less than 100 people, more than thousands.

In this era, Buddhism and Taoism developed in an all-round way, in order to compete for the throne and grab believers, Buddhism translated Buddhist scriptures widely, Taoism created Taoist books, hired people to write them to widely disseminate, and people's demand for Buddhist scriptures and Taoist books was extremely strong.

With huge demand, business opportunities are coming, booksellers from all over the country are increasing day by day, in order to obtain huge profits, booksellers hire people to copy a large number of books, set up bookstores to sell, especially in Chang'an, Luoyang, Jiankang, Yecheng, Jinyang and other cities are the most prosperous, bookstores are lined up one after another.

Therefore, Yu Wenwen convened Xu Shao, Hao Wubo and Zheng Tong to draw up a book list after discussing for a long time, and then to 'return with a full load' in Yecheng, and then expand in Bazhou, so similar educational books are also the focus of purchase.

He wanted to set up a county school so that the aspiring children of the common people could read and write.

Everything is ready, just see if there are original books that people can copy by hand, Yu Wenwen looked at the long list in his hand, especially the dense book list, and said to himself: "It turns out that selling books is so profitable"

Hand-copied? When the ink is successfully blended, I will see what you compare with the cost of my movable type printing!! (To be continued.) )