Xin Bi remembered what the old man said about the paper mill, and immediately fell into his heart.

Since Cai Lun improved papermaking, paper is nothing new. Paper is lighter than bamboo slips, cheaper than silk, and is very popular with readers, but how to make paper is not clear to everyone, and the quality of paper is uneven. Donglai Zuo Bo is a calligrapher, he is very dissatisfied with the paper on the market, he has devoted himself to research for many years, and has created a uniform thickness and fine texture of the paper, called Zuo Bo paper, which has become a best-selling product all of a sudden, and readers often take Zuo Bo paper as a gift.

But not many people know how Zuo Bo paper was made. Uncle Zuo cherishes his secrets and refuses to show them. Now that he had heard that Tang's Paper Mill had produced a new paper comparable to Zuobo's Paper, Simbi realized that there was a huge danger involved. Along the way, he has seen the four-wheeled cart, saw the new plow, and now Nanyang people have made new paper in just a few months, how big is the potential of Nanyang, why can they create new things one after another?

Xin Bi quickened his pace and followed Zhao Yan out of the county temple, and the county officials brought the horses, and Zhao Yan turned over and got on the horse. Simbi was a little embarrassed. He was used to riding in a car, not to riding a horse. You can cope with it if you walk slowly, but you are likely to make a fool of yourself if you follow Zhao Yan to gallop. Zhao Yan walks quickly, and riding a horse is naturally for convenience, so it is unlikely that he will walk slowly with him.

Zhao Yan saw that Xin Bi was slow to get on the horse, so he reacted and immediately stopped a carriage on the side of the road. Horse-drawn carts were also four-wheeled carts, but with horse-drawn carriages, they were faster and much more expensive, almost twice as expensive as ox-carts. Just pulled to the Deng family outside the city, and collected Zhao Yan a hundred yuan.

Watching Zhao Yan take out a handful of money, counting them one by one, ready to pay the fare later, Xin Bi's eyes straightened.

"Boran, you are Xinye Ling, and you still have to pay for the car?"

"This is a private car, of course you have to give money." Zhao Yan looked at Xin Bi and laughed. "It's okay, I have a carriage allowance, not missing these two dollars." He squeezed his eyes. "Don't look at me, I'm just a Qianshi county magistrate, but my income and allowances add up to no less than Taishou."

Simbi disagreed. Although he has never been a taishou, he knows how much Taishou has to pay, and he also knows all kinds of extra money from Taishou. There are a lot of guards, but if it's just a fortune, it's not really rich. Zhao Yantang county order, even if there is no guard of honor when traveling, there is not even one entourage, only two subordinate officials, which is really shabby.

"You can't even afford to keep an entourage, and you still say you have money?"

"It's not that I can't afford it, it's that there are a lot of things, and everyone has their own mess. When you go out of the city later, just take a few soldiers with you at the gates. ”

"Aren't you afraid that someone will be against you?"

"You?" Zhao Yan laughed loudly and slapped his thigh hard. "Xin George, believe it or not, as long as I shout on the road, someone wants to assassinate this county order, but any new savage will rush out and ask for your life."

"I can't see that you are so loved, you are really a good parent, no wonder the new savages want to elect you to be the commander."

"Alas, the people, that's it, if you treat them a little better, they will want to dig out their hearts and lungs." Zhao Yan sighed and looked out the car window, his eyes were clear and his eyes were burning. After a while, he turned his head. "George, I've actually been waiting for you for a long time."

"Wait for me?"

"That's right, General Sun has a very good impression of you. I heard Guo Fengxiao say that I have a good relationship with you, so I specially wrote to ask me to persuade you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken you to the paper mill. The ten paper mills in Nanyang are all confidential, and ordinary people can't enter at all. ”

Simbi smiled. "I didn't promise General Sun, you will take me now, is there some Meng Lang?"

"This is also what the general ordered."

"General Sun is really sincere."

"General Sun said that he doesn't want to be an enemy with you, he wants to be friends with you. Since we are friends, we naturally have to be honest with each other. ”

"If I don't want to be a friend, I have to be an enemy?"

Zhao Yan looked at Xin Bi for a moment and laughed silently. "George, you'd better not think like that. There are two examples, none of which you want to follow. ”

Xin Bi was silent for a moment, and already knew who Zhao Yan was talking about. In fact, there are more than two, and Sun Ce is the enemy, and there are too many people who don't end well in the end, so there is no need to bother to find them. He turned his head, avoided Zhao Yan's gaze, leaned against the wall of the car, looked through the window, looked at the bustling crowd outside, and his mind suddenly wavered, just like a four-wheeled carriage.

Zhao Yan and I said that Sun Ce could use Zhao Yan so much, and specially wrote to Zhao Yan to persuade me, if I voted for him, can he not reuse me?

After a few moments, Simbi came back to his senses and couldn't help but laugh. Sun Ce is sincere, but unfortunately his portal is too low, even if he uses all his strength, he is not Yuan Shao's opponent. It was a coincidence that he was able to make such a big move in Nanyang, Nanyang Haoqiang was cleared a lot because of his betrayal of Yuan Shu, and Sun Ce defeated Xu Rong and won the hearts of the people in Nanyang, which was able to vigorously promote a series of new policies. In other places, such as Runan, does he dare to do this?

Sun Ce obviously knew this, Nanyang was in full swing, but Runan was not shocked, naturally he knew that his ability was limited, so he concentrated on running Nanyang. Nanyang has a favorable location, if Sun Ce is grounded, Yuan Shao may not be able to conquer it smoothly even if he goes south in the future.

Time is running out.

However, Gongsun Chan is entrenched in Youzhou, and Yuan Shao is at odds with him, and the war is imminent, and Yuan Shao is impossible to go south at this moment. For this reason, he is now reluctant to tear his face with Chang'an.

Sun Ce obviously saw this. He is also rushing for time, and he is bent on grabbing Jingzhou. Sanguan has already fallen into his hands, and the next step must be to capture Nanjun and Jiangxia, Liu Xun and Huang Yi are two pigs, and it is impossible for Sun Ce to be the opponent at all. These two counties fell into the hands of Sun Ce, and Yuan Shao thought that it would be difficult to cross the river, and the war could only be carried out between Yu and Yan, even if it was broken, Sun Ce would not feel distressed.

By the way, where is Sun Ce now? Why didn't he directly seize Jiangxia?

"Where is General Sun, has he returned to Pingyu?"

"No, he went to Jiujiang."

"Nine...... River? ”

Simbi's heart suddenly lifted. Jiujiang Taishou Zhou Ang is Zhou Yu's brother, and the three brothers are all supporters of Yuan Shao, Sun Ce just won the three levels, turned around and went to Jiujiang, what does he want to do, left Nanyang, right Jiujiang, and Yuan Shao decisive battle Yuzhou?

Simbi felt a heavy weight on his shoulders. Yuan Shao sent him to Yuzhou not only to escort Yuan Yaolai to guard Yuan Shu's tomb, his task was to interfere with Sun Ce's layout and buy time for Yuan Shao, but what he could do was very limited, and Sun Ce's development speed was too fast. The situation is urgent, and there can be no longer delay, and the situation in Nanyang must be reported to Yuan Shao, so that he can raise Sun Ce to the same dangerous level as Gongsun Zan for consideration. Even if the main force of Jizhou could not go south, Yanzhou's troops should be mobilized to invade Sun Ce.