For tea, the nobles of the Qin State are no strangers, especially the way to drink green tea is a manifestation of cultivation among the upper nobles.

Above the main hall of Xianyang Palace, the courtiers were commenting on these teas.

Suddenly, Qu Yuan shouted at the top of his voice; "Bai Hui, the old man knows that you are hiding at this time, come out, come out."

Bai Hui, who was about to leave secretly, hesitated for a moment and walked out of the side door of the main hall.

"Bai Hui, what the hell are you doing?" Qu Yuan pointed at Bai Hui and was about to scold.

Bai Hui said very calmly: "I have 180,000 books of Mengxue in my warehouse, and 100,000 volumes of arithmetic, poetry, etc. There are 30,000 books on agriculture, mulberry, tea, and cotton. However, the quality of these books is very poor, and it can turn into shreds of paper after a maximum of two years of reading, do you want it. ”

"Yes."

"If you want, don't scold me."

"You." Qu Yuan pointed at Bai Hui, and he really couldn't scold.

Bai Hui touched it in his arms, took out a copy of "Chu Ci" and handed it to Qu Yuan: "I arranged for someone to sort it out and print it." As long as you have 1,000 gold, I will give you 10,000 copies, how about it? ”

Books are precious.

The previous books were all made of bamboo slips, and then carved and then inked one by one.

Engraving printing.

There are countless very good scribes in the Qin Palace, and they are carving bamboo slips all day long. It's just that the light engraving becomes the dark engraving, and each of them is a master for some days.

A piece of fine wood can be carved out in an hour, but the number of words is a little small, and each plate can only have forty words, and a maximum of sixty words.

And each plate can only be used about 2,000 times.

With fine wood, it can be used up to 5,000 times, but the carving is much more difficult. At present, the most suitable ones are teak from Ba County, and jujube wood from Guanzhong North.

Qu Yuan's eyes lit up.

Qu Yuan knelt for Bai Hui in his heart.

With trembling hands, he took the book of Chu Ci, and Qu Yuan asked in a low voice: "Could it be that selling farm tools to Zhao Guo is a plan?" ”

"Of course."

"Since it's a plan, then the old man won't ask, the old man's duty is to educate the people, and this first step is naturally within ten years, so that all the people in the world will write their names."

Bai Hui bowed: "Doctor Qu is noble, Doctor Qu's ideal is too selfless and too great." As long as I have a little bit of strength, I will also help the doctor to fulfill his dream. ”

"Thank you Dahe-kun for the book, I don't know when I can take it away?"

"After Xianyang Dacang and my Yiyang warehouse settle the bill, you can take it away."

"Okay." Qu Yuan didn't think about letting Bai Hui give it to him for free. He knew that it was not easy to make books, let alone such thin paper books. He also knew that Bai Hui had invested an unknown amount of money in order to study papermaking, and knowledge was priceless, but books were valuable.

Seeing that Bai Hui had settled on Qu Yuan, Zou Yan pressed one hand on his forehead.

Just now, Qu Yuan wanted to fight side by side with him, which would have Qu Yuan defeated by a book, Zou Yan was helpless, as long as he went into battle alone.

Zou Yan came to the King of Qin: "Your Majesty, the farm tools required for the Hetao and the farm tools needed for Dianchi Lake." Here is a copy of the account book, and the king is invited to look at it. ”

"The widow doesn't look at it, you can go to Bai Hui for anything, the things stored in the Yiyang warehouse are enough for the entire Great Qin, but the widow has a word first, the Yiyang warehouse is the national capital of the Great Qin, and it was originally planned to be urgently needed when something unpredictable happens, so you look at it."

King Qin's level of speaking is naturally getting higher and higher.

He knew Bai Hui's hoarding, but he wouldn't say that Bai Hui's hoarding was a disease, and King Qin only said that this batch of materials was for Qin as strategic materials and emergency backup.

Then, Bai Hui's hoarding is not a mistake, but a great achievement.

The approximate warehouse stock booklet of Yiyang Cang was handed over to Xun Guo, Xun Guo was Xiangguo, and this matter was naturally in his charge.

King Qin is ready to flash.

In order to prevent these courtiers from surrounding him, the king of Qin began to send gifts.

"The widow knows that ranking is very hard. Therefore the widow prepared some winter clothes, and some of them were used in the winter bed. According to the title, it is distributed to officials in various places, and the bitter cold land is doubled. ”

"Thank you, the king."

There are five kinds of winter clothes sent by the King of Qin and those used in winter beds. The highest grade is silk cotton, refined cotton, and cashmere products. The second class is silk cotton and fine cotton products. Again, there is cotton, wool, and the next grade, there are also cotton and wool mattresses.

Of course, there are two exceptions.

One is lambskin and the other is camel hair. Because the number of this kind is very, very small, it is only available to the top nobles in Xianyang.

King Qin finally got out, and Bai Hui also took the opportunity to slip away.

Only Wei Ran was a little slower and was pulled back, and now before the discussion ended, it was impossible for him to leave.

King Qin walked to the door of the harem and found that Wei Ran was not there. Turned around and asked Bai Hui: "Uncle doesn't seem to have come out." ”

"This, the friends of the dead Dao are not dead and poor, if it weren't for the Marquis to stay in the main hall, it is estimated that Brother Wang and I would not be able to escape, so please ask the Marquis to give me a little more strength for the prosperity of Great Qin. The marquis is the pillar of the country, I ...... It's rotten wood. Bai Hui's words of rotten wood made King Qin laugh.

"Brother Wang, why don't you go to the eye shop?"

"It's fine."

The eye workshop that Bai Hui said was called the Dragonfly Eye Workshop at this time. This dragonfly eye is a glass bead that came from the far west of the Western Intercept Territory a long time ago.

Later, the craftsmen of the Central Plains researched and created a technique of their own. Later generations called Liuli.

The Wu clan helped Bai Hui get many craftsmen from the Western Regions, including a small craftsman who knew Roman cement and a glassmaker.

Combining the techniques of the West with the techniques of the craftsmen of the East, new products are being studied.

However, it is still called Eye Fang.

The investment intensity of this kind of workshop is much lower than that of steel mills and cement mills, and the difference is the level of luxury goods and strategic materials.

As a luxury, it's not worth investing too much.

Compared with the nearly 1,000 craftsmen in the cement workshop who are constantly researching new processes and new formulas day and night, it is only more than 70 days here, which is still the number of small workers and handymen.

Bai Hui was interested in this place, but only interested.

Compared with porcelain, Bai Hui still knows a little bit, and his knowledge of glass Bai Hui is 0.01. The only thing we know is that quartz sand is one of the raw materials used to make glass, and it is only one of them.

In the eye shop, King Qin looked at the colorful pieces of glass, but he was constantly praising the craftsmen.

"It's a pity that there is no pure and colorless one." King Qin said with regret.

Bai Hui stood aside and said very plainly: "It's okay, we have money." You can try a thousand, 10,000 formulas, and there will always be one that will be pure and colorless. ”

Pure and colorless, it's hard.

Of course, Bai Hui didn't expect it to be made here, and Bai Hui preferred precious porcelain to glasses. If this glass can really be made, then make a few telescopes first.