Chapter Fifty-Eight: New Paper

Li Chongyi's temperament is also what he says and does. Pulling Xuan Shijing and walking out, he found the three Qin Ying who were gathered together, and told Xuan Shijing that he wanted to go to Zhuangzi, and the three of them, who were already idle and bored, hit it off with Li Chongyi, and immediately ordered their scholars to lead the horse and wait at the gate of the palace.

And after a few people quickly returned to the Hongwen Pavilion and sorted out their bookcases, they walked outside the palace gate.

Since the master commanded, the scholars naturally did not dare to slack off, and their movements were very sharp, and when Xuan Shijing and the others walked to the palace gate, the scholars of each family were already waiting at the palace gate with their horses.

Everyone turned over and got on the horse, Li Chongyi first put the oath gold in the saddle, and then turned over and sat behind Xuan Shijing, and Xuan Shijing was surprised that Qin Ying could also ride a horse alone.

Qin Ying looked at Xuan Shijing as if he had a sense, and when he saw the expression on Xuan Shijing's face, he probably knew what he was thinking, and said, "Brother Shijing, brother, I started riding horses when I was six years old. ”

Oh, if you want to learn to ride a horse, it will take two years, Xuan Shijing sighed secretly, now Li Chongyi can only take himself to ride a horse to Zhuangzi.

Along the way, the fresh clothes and angry horses, although it is not the spring season, but a few people riding horses and whips still run out of a bit of spring breeze and horseshoe momentum, it may be that this winter stuffy in Chang'an City really stuffed these idle masters.

Xuan Shijing This is the first time to "ride a horse", nesting in front of Li Chongyi, only to feel that the spring breeze is blowing on the face, the sound of the whirring wind is ringing in his ears, and the scene on both sides slowly falls backwards, although the artistic conception is very beautiful, but it is the degree of bump that is a little unbearable, Xuan Shijing's tender arms and legs, just ran to the outskirts of Chang'an City, Xuan Shijing felt that his buttocks were turned a little uncomfortable, if he ran to Zhuangzi, his small body would not fall apart.

After running for a while, Xuan Shijing felt a little tired, so he simply leaned on Li Chongyi's body, although he was a little embarrassed, but it was better than being guilty.

Li Chongyi looked down at Xuan Shijing, who was leaning on him, and said, "Xiao Jing is a little tired? ”

"Sort of, I feel a little pain in my butt." Xuan Shijing replied.

"Although you are too young to ride a horse now, you can master the essentials of riding a horse politely, and you can feel the rhythm of the horse running, and follow this rhythm and bow down together, so that it will be much easier." Li Chongyi taught Xuan Shijing some basic movements of horseback riding.

Xuan Shijing followed Li Chongyi's words and experimented with it, and sure enough, the violent bump just now was reduced a lot, and his butt was not as hot and painful as just now.

About half an hour, Li Chongyi told Xuan Shijing that he had reached the boundary of Dongshan County, Xuan Shijing looked around, and could vaguely see the outline of the village, but he didn't expect to ride a horse so fast, and the last time he took the carriage, he walked for an hour and a half.

It didn't take long for Xuan Shijing and his party to arrive at Zhuangzi, led everyone to the courtyard of the fiefdom, and tied the horse to the tethered stone at the gate of the courtyard.

Seeing the people coming in and out of the yard, Xuan Shijing knew that this was the papermaking workshop that was starting, and looking inside, Gao Jun was directing the workers to busily pick up the messy debris.

There were so many people at the gate of the courtyard, which also attracted Gao Jun's attention, and when he looked out, it turned out to be his own marquis and a few sons, and hurriedly came out to greet him.

"Little Marquis, why are you here?" Gao Jun walked out of the courtyard gate and greeted him: "Gao Jun has seen all the sons. Gao Jun saw Qin Ying, Chai Lingwu, Cheng Huailiang and Li Chongyi behind Xuan Shijing, and clasped his fists and saluted.

"In the afternoon, there was no homework in Hongwen Hall, I was idle and had nothing to do, so I came over, where is Uncle Zhong?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"Uncle Zhong is accompanying His Royal Highness King Wei inside." Gao Jun replied.

"Why is His Royal Highness King Wei also on this Zhuangzi?" Chai Lingwu asked in surprise.

"Don't stand at the door, let's go in and say, Gao Jun, is there a clean room in this courtyard?"

"Yes, you come with me." Gao Jun turned around and invited everyone into the courtyard and followed them to lead the way.

To be honest, Xuan Shijing didn't know how big his yard was, when he came to the fiefdom a year ago, he just took a look at it, the yard at that time was still very dilapidated, after a period of repair, it looks much better now, at least not like before, no one managed, dilapidated.

As Gao Jun walked into the courtyard, Gao Jun explained to Xuan Shijing the progress of the papermaking workshop while leading the way.

"Little Hou Ye, this yard is quite big, the paper mill occupies the courtyard in the south, where the sun is more abundant, the place is wide enough, push some old houses, rebuild it, because the construction began in the first month, so now, everything is ready, as long as the craftsmen and materials arrive, they can start work immediately, and now His Royal Highness King Wei is studying new papermaking materials with several craftsmen."

New papermaking materials? It seems that there is no need to say it yourself, Li Tai has also explored this aspect, he is indeed a talent, and it is no wonder that His Majesty Li Er loves him so much.

"Take us to His Royal Highness King Wei." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes, guys, please." Gao Jun continued to lead the way, led everyone to the door of a room, and knocked lightly on the door: "Your Highness, the little marquis and a few sons are here." ”

I only heard Li Tai's voice coming from the room: "Shijing is here?" Come on in. ”

After getting Li Tai's instructions, Gao Jun gently pushed open the door and invited Xuan Shijing and his party in.

"Little Hou Ye, you and a few sons go in, and the little ones will go to work first." Gao Jun said.

"Okay, there you go." Xuan Shijing answered, took the lead and walked into the room.

After Gao Jun waited for everyone to enter the room, he gently closed the door and turned to leave.

Entering the room, Xuan Shijing took a look, the room was quite large, but it was a little messy, and there were not many things to put in, but they were all wood, straw, bamboo, and some paper-making raw materials such as straw, there was a large wooden low table in the middle of the room, and there were futons around it, Li Tai, Zhong Zishuo and several people in coarse cloth shirts in their thirties were sitting together discussing something, and when they saw Xuan Shijing and others coming in, those people hurriedly got up to meet them.

"The grass people meet the Hou Ye."

"It's all polite, no need to be polite." Xuan Shijing knew that these were all papermakers found by Zhong Zishuo from Chang'an City.

After a few people behind him and Li Tai had a polite exchange, they all sat down around the wooden table, and several people were more curious, what was Xuan Shijing upside down, why His Royal Highness King Wei sat in such a messy place, regardless of his identity, sitting with a group of craftsmen.

"Your Highness, how did it work?" Xuan Shijing asked, looking at the materials they found in this room, I am afraid that they have already undergone some experiments.

"I discussed it with a few masters, and the book said that Cai Hou improved the raw materials of this paper back then, so we started to transform it from this material, and tried it several times, and there was a good growth, Shijing, look at this." Li Tai picked up a few pieces of paper pressed under the wooden ruler and handed them to Xuan Shijing.

Xuan Shijing spread a few pieces of paper on the table in front of him, looked carefully, the last one with the most correct texture and color was the last one, picked it up and looked at it carefully, and found that it was still a little rough.

"At present, the most ideal is this one, the color is whiter, and the softness is much stronger than that of hard yellow paper." Xuan Shijing said.