In Liu Wei's palace, although Ye Zhao was surprised by the battle in this palace, he did not show timidity, and bowed to Liu Hong without humility or arrogance.

"Ye Qing doesn't have to be polite." Liu Hong smiled and stretched out his hand to help: "I heard that Ye Qing prepared a congratulatory gift for Wannian to congratulate her on her birthday, these days, Wannian has not been less chattering, which makes me also curious, today is Wannian's birthday, I and the queen mother came to join in this fun, this is your gift?" ”

"Not bad!" Ye Zhao bowed and said.

"Then open it." Liu Hong said with a smile.

"Whoa!"

Ye Zhao nodded, stepped forward in person, and took off the cloth cover on the car, revealing the contents inside, but when they saw the thing, everyone including Liu Wei was a little disappointed.

"Ye Qing, is this Cai Hou paper?" Liu Hong looked at the things in front of him, the workmanship is quite exquisite, and the paper looks more sophisticated than the Caihou paper that Liu Hong has seen, Ye Zhao used paper to paste out a beautiful box, although it looks rare, but in terms of royalty, there are many works of art with exquisite workmanship, all of which are made by masters, in terms of style, the things in front of him are not flattering.

"Based on Caihou paper, the minister recruited some craftsmen to research, not only the paper is more durable, but the most important thing is that the cost is cheaper than Caihou paper, and the materials used are less." Ye Zhao smiled and took a piece of loose paper from the frame and handed it to Qian Man on the side: "Please take a look at Your Majesty." ”

Cai Lun's improved papermaking technology, in fact, has been quite practical, but Cai Lun's papermaking materials are cheap, but the workmanship is very complicated, and it is not suitable for promotion, Ye Zhao found a lot of relevant literature, plus some of his own knowledge of paper, handed over to the craftsman to continue to improve, and now the paper made is not only not worse than Cai Hou paper, but most importantly, it has the ability to mass produce.

Liu Hong took the paper, there are also in the palace, but not much, after all, it is not a commonly used thing, even if the paper technology is mature and the placket has a history of nearly 100 years, but it has never really been as popular as Cai Lun imagined.

Liu Hong pulled the paper, didn't tear it open, frowned slightly, thought of something, looked up at Ye Zhao and said, "You said that this paper is cheap?" How cheap is the law? ”

"The minister asked people to make a machine, as long as three or five people can operate, take turns to rest and do not stop working, as long as the material is enough, each machine can make 1,000 pieces of paper a day, if there can be 100 instruments operating at the same time, as long as there are enough people, there can be 100,000 pieces of paper a day." Ye Zhao looked at Liu Hong with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, if this thing can be promoted, the long-cherished wish that could not be fulfilled during the period of Emperor He will be completed in the hands of Your Majesty!" ”

Cai Lun improved papermaking at that time, known as the sharpest sword in the world, if it can be promoted, it can gather the hearts of the world's corporals, but unfortunately, first, the technology is only initially mature, the process is complicated, and the output is not much, second, although there is no clear literature to explain what happened that year, but since the death of Emperor He, this matter has gradually faded, and there is no second Cai Lun to continue to promote, making papermaking stagnate for a hundred years, and even many technologies have not been found to record.

Ye Zhao has long been aware that the class in this era is gradually solidifying, firstly, there are so many resources in the world, the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty have been gone for four hundred years, and the interests of the top level have basically been distributed, even if there are changes, it is also the differentiation and devouring within this circle, Rao is Ye Zhao has worked hard to make contributions, and it is also difficult to squeeze into this circle.

The second is that the bottom lacks access to knowledge, Ye Zhao wants to break this circle before the world is in turmoil, but he himself does not want to be counterattacked, once this thing is promoted, the interests touched are too huge, even if the circle is broken, Ye Zhao stands in the center of the wind and waves, and it is difficult to retreat, so he wants to hand over this important task to Liu Hong to complete, and only the Son of Heaven may be able to resist this backlash.

When Liu Hong heard this, his heart suddenly became hot, and he looked at Ye Zhao with burning eyes: "Ye Qing said that he is willing to dedicate this papermaking technique to the imperial court?" ”

"Not bad." Ye Zhao nodded, and then said with a wry smile: "I just hope that Your Majesty will not make this thing public because Weichen did...... Chen didn't want to be the second Cai Hou. ”

Hearing this, Liu Hong looked at Ye Zhao and nodded silently.

Cai Lun's life, brilliant, has served four young emperors, in the liehou, the position of Jiuqing, but after the glory, it is endless bleak, and finally committed suicide, the explanation given by the official face, Cai Lun committed suicide in fear of crime, but Cai Lun is a respected Jiuqing! Judging from today's officialdom, if you can respect Jiuqing, which one is not related to the family, and has a large relationship, even if you are guilty, if Liu Hong wants to kill a Jiuqing, you have to weigh it carefully, and if you can scare a minister who respects Jiuqing into committing suicide, Liu Hong can probably guess something.

"Is there a way to promote this?" Liu Hong suddenly raised his head and looked at Ye Zhaodao.

"Shang!" Ye Zhao said in a deep voice: "If this thing is only distributed by the imperial court, I am afraid that it will be taken away by the major families if it does not come out of Luoyang, Your Majesty can recruit craftsmen to make a batch, and then secretly find some innocent merchants to sell it to various places, one can cross the officialdom, and the other can also add some wealth to Your Majesty, of course, if you can rub some words on it, the value will be higher!" ”

Although there is no engraving printing, but in this era, in fact, there is already a rubbing, Liu Hong listened to the eyes of the bright, although Ye Zhao just said casually, but Liu Hong understands the value, if you can use these paper rubbings to print a large number of books and then sell them to the people, not to mention those wealthy families, that is, ordinary people, can also provide Liu Hong with a lot of money.

It is said that the world is royal, but his family knows his own affairs, Liu Hong has always been planning to establish a new army, but unfortunately he has been suffering from no money to form, if these things can be used in exchange for a large amount of money, not only can break the family's monopoly on culture, so that the people continue to emerge talents, but also can raise enough military salaries for him, which is a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

"Qing's loyalty, I remember it in my heart, as long as Ye Qing lives up to me, I will always keep Ye Qing rich and noble!" Liu Hong looked at Ye Zhao solemnly, he was a little glad that God had sent such a person to his side.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty for your trust!" ”

"Hmph~" Liu Wei pursed her mouth dissatisfiedly, and looked at Ye Zhao with unkind eyes: "Bad guy, are you giving me a gift or a gift to my father?" ”

"Yo, Wei'er is delicious." Liu Hong couldn't help laughing when he saw this.

Ye Zhao bowed slightly and said: "Don't worry, the princess, the minister said that the gift given by the minister today will definitely satisfy the princess!" ”

"That's it?" Liu Wei snorted angrily and pointed to the 'carton' in front of her.

"There is another mystery in this thing!" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"What's the mystery?" Liu Wei frowned and looked at Ye Zhao.

"It can fly!" Ye Zhao pointed to the so-called cardboard box and said with a smile: "Besides, doesn't the princess think it's like a lamp?" ”

"Lights? Fly? Liu Wei walked to Ye Zhao's side curiously, looking at the paper lamp in front of her, she had seen the lamp, weaving it into a frame with bamboo strips, and then covering it with a thin cloth, the lamp in front of her seemed to be ......

"How to fly?"

"Torch!" Ye Zhao took a torch from the guard's hand and handed it to Liu Wei and said with a smile: "This lamp, if the princess lights it herself, the minister will let the entire Luoyang City celebrate the princess's birthday." ”

"What?" Liu Wei looked at Ye Zhao with some ignorance.

Ye Zhao asked the lamp to be lifted, revealing a thin wooden plate underneath, on which was a thick wick was placed, which was filled with lamp oil.

"The princess just needs to light it."

Liu Wei lit the wick with some expectation according to Ye Zhao's instructions, Ye Zhao ordered someone to put the lampshade back on, and then, in the surprised eyes of Liu Wei, Liu Hong, Empress Dong, and a cadre of guards and eunuchs, the entire paper lamp was slowly illuminated, and handwriting faintly appeared on it:

"I wish the princess a thousand years old and a thousand years old!"

"Fly, really fly!" Liu Wei looked at the paper lamp in front of her with great excitement, and slowly rose into the air.

The paper lantern, which is more than one person high, gradually flew above the palace, and it was extremely eye-catching in the dark night.

And the appearance of this paper lamp, as if a signal, the entire Luoyang City, suddenly from all directions flying a large number of paper lamps, paper lamps more and more, constantly rising in the air, enough tens of thousands of flying from all corners of Luoyang, the entire Luoyang City, are quiet, everyone is watching this shocking scene.

In order to create this scene, Ye Zhao not only called his family members, generals and everyone from the Luoyang Mansion, but also paid more than 2,000 women to help him put the paper lamp.

Countless paper lamps rose into the air and fluttered over the entire Luoyang City, and it wasn't until these paper lamps flew to a very high place that no one found that these paper lamps were faintly gathered into a few words, which were the words written on Ye Zhao's first paper lamp:

10,000 years princess Chitose Chitose Chitose!

The words lasted for a quarter of an hour before they gradually dispersed.

"It's beautiful!" Liu Wei looked at the paper lamp that gradually dissipated and didn't know where it was drifting, her beautiful eyes were confused, and she suddenly turned her head to look at Ye Zhao and said, "Bad guy, thank you!" This is the best gift Vile has ever received in her life. ”

Ye Zhao's face was full of black lines, when this emperor called himself like this, wasn't he afraid that Liu Hong would misunderstand something?

"Night work, good means!" Liu Hong looked at Liu Wei, who had a confused and happy face, then looked at Ye Zhao, suddenly laughed, and gave Ye Zhao a thumbs up.

"Uh...... However, the tricks are tricky, and I hope that I can make the princess smile, and the minister will be relieved. Ye Zhao suddenly felt that something was wrong, looked at the paper lamps in the sky, and then looked at Liu Wei's expression, and the smile on his face was a little stiff.

"What's the name of this lamp?" Liu Wei suddenly looked at Ye Zhao.

Kong Ming lantern!

Ye Zhao wanted to say this, but it seems that now Zhuge Kongming doesn't know if he was born, Xiuming Lantern? Seems to be good.

Ye Zhao was about to speak, but he was facing Liu Wei's gentle and expectant gaze, and when he came to his mouth, he suddenly couldn't speak, and the ghost said in a bad way: "The lamp is nameless, but since it is placed for the princess, let's call it the Ten Thousand Year Lamp." ”