Chapter 1015 The Room Covered with Snowflakes (Part II)

What can you do with two taels of silver? In November of the second year of Xining (1069), Kaifeng snowed heavily, and many poor citizens were frozen to death. In the second year of Yuanyou (1087), Fan Zuyu pointed out in Kaifeng: "Those who are hungry and poor will not die if they get ten yuan a day and rice will not die." ”

The 20 wen per day in the second year of Xining included the cost of buying food, and the 10 wen in the second year of Yuanyou was the necessary expenses (including rent) in addition to food. This means that in the Song Dynasty, the minimum cost of living for a person in the capital was 20 wen a day (600 wen per month). The cost of a day for people in the capital can buy two adult pigs in Huangzhou.

After Su Dongpo finished instructing the priest, when he raised his eyes and saw Zhao Xing, he was a little stunned, as if he didn't know how to speak, and after a while, he laughed: "You brew good wine!" ”

Zhao Xing respectfully bowed to the disciple: "The bachelor has done a good job!" ”

The two laughed at each other.

In fact, it is a little too much to say that Zhao Xing brews good wine - pickles and radishes have their own loves, Moutai is good, some people don't drink a glass for life, and would rather drink low-alcohol wine. Strictly speaking, Zhao Xing's wine is not very good, in fact, the wine he brews is just some Fenjiu blended with fruit juice, or Fenjiu with fruity aroma.

How many famous wines were there in the Song Dynasty, according to the records of "Tokyo Menghualu", there were more than 280 kinds of well-known wines at that time. The top ten famous liquors of China's later generations, such as Xifeng liquor, Wuliangye, Fenjiu, Shaoxing liquor, Dong liquor, etc., have all appeared at this time - it can even be said that since the Song Dynasty, there has been no new (famous) wine.

Relatively speaking, the brewing of fruit wine in the Song Dynasty was not developed, and the number of famous fruit wines was not many. Zhao Xing's appearance just happened to fill the gap of fruit wine and high wine.

Chengjiaao is located in the mountains, with little arable land but abundant products. The wild fruits in the mountains can be picked by women and children without much strong labor, which makes the cost of making fruit wine extremely low. The environment forced Zhao Xing to develop fruit wine. But after he went to Fuzhou for a while, he also knew that there was still a gap between the wine he brewed and the world's famous wine, so he faced Su Dongpo's praise and humbled himself again and again.

With the support of Zhao Xingfu's "gambling account" yesterday, Su Dongpo's gift to Zhang Taiyuan this time was also very rich: all kinds of fine wines from Chengjiaao filled the empty grape basket, which made the priests very satisfied.

When Su Dongpo sent the guests back, he found that Zhao Xing was still there, and only the snowflakes on the wall were left in the house that he was interested in. ”

Zhao Xing arched his hand and said with admiration: "The bachelor's whimsical ideas amazed the protégé. ”

Su Dongpo was a little surprised.

When others look at his house, they will only comment on how elegant, how stylish, and how ...... his house is But the young man's answer in front of him was incredible, making him feel that this person's thinking was more out of step than his.

"What do you understand", he couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

"The world knows that lime can be bleached, and the master uses it to paint the walls—so whimsical that the students admire it."

Su Dongpo was stunned for a while, and then he came back to his senses, and he explained with a little shame: "Actually,......, it didn't start with ,......, gray stone used to paint the wall. In this place in Huangzhou, the practice of painting gray stone on the wall has a history of 100 years, and I also heard the villagers talk about it, so I thought of it. ”

Su Dongpo paused slightly, and said proudly: "However, they all paint directly on the wall with gray stone, and dissolve the gray stone in water and paint the entire wall - but it starts with themselves." ”

According to him, he heard that there was a child named Bi Sheng in Huangzhou, who had studied hard since he was a child, because his family was poor and could not afford to buy paper and pencils, so he used dry and hard lime blocks to graffiti on the wall, he called this lime block "chalk", Su Shi heard this legend, and only then did he think of using lime to graffiti on the wall.

Bi Sheng - this name made Zhao Xing awe-inspired, Bi Sheng of the Song Dynasty is likely to be the Su Mo Ren Sheng Bi Te, who invented movable type printing, he asked carefully: "Where is this Bi Sheng?" ”

Su Dongpo shook his head and replied, "It's not clear, alas...... This person, I heard that he later went to Hangzhou Wanjuantang Bookstore as an apprentice. ”

Sure enough, it was the Sogdian Bi Sheng. It was he who invented movable type printing in Hangzhou Wanjuantang, and was buried in Yingshan not far from Chengjiaao after his death. Modern archaeology has found a genealogy of the Bi Sheng family, which records in Sogdian script the experience of Bi Sheng's ancestors after entering the Central Plains and changing their surname to "Bi".

The reason why Huangzhou was still a deserted place in the Song Dynasty was also because the barbarian naturalization was not long ago, and the history of the Song Dynasty recorded: Xiyang Man, Xincai Man, "barbarian no servitude, the strong do not provide official taxes, form a party and a group, there are hundreds of thousands of people, the state and county are weak, then they are thieves, there are slightly more types, and the household registration is unknown." There is no township system in such a barbarian area, and therefore, the records of Qizhou in the county chronicles of Song Shizhou are very omitted.

Thinking of Bi Sheng, looking at the lime painting on Su Shi's wall, Zhao Xing's head turned like an axle.

Leap Thinking, what is Leap Thinking? Su Dongpo can think of using lime to paint, isn't it inspiring for me as a modern person?

Printing, what else can you do, printing!

In this era, the engraving printing technology has been very mature, and the printing industry is the time of unprecedented development, so Zhao Xing can also buy "Qi Min Yaoshu" in a remote and closed place like Huangzhou, but although the printing industry in the Song Dynasty is extremely developed, it is all printed on paper, if it is printed on cloth.

The dyeing method of the Song Dynasty was later called the "national printing and dyeing industry" - Miao batik.

When the Song Dynasty invented batik, it should have gone one step further and continued to develop printing and dyeing, that is, "printing, dyeing and weaving". Because in this era, all the knowledge and technology required for printing and dyeing have matured, and you can cross the technical threshold with a single step......

Zhao Xing didn't know the specific process of printing and dyeing, but he had occasionally seen how to print newspapers on TV...... Yes, what I think about in the morning is printing, and I print paper when others print paper. There are no technical barriers, the same process, the object is different.

Engraving to cylinder - wooden cylinder printing, this kind of thinking jump, can the Song people think of it?

Zhao Xing was still there excited, and Su Shi looked at this tall and strong man with a different thinking from ordinary people. Because of this appreciation, he did not refuse the other party's self-proclaimed "protégé", looking at the other party's dress, he happily asked: "Are you also this year's lifter?" Who is the surname and who is the teacher? ”

Why "also"?

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