Rolled up the piece of paper, explained a few more words to the craftsmen, got dressed and returned to the place where he handled government affairs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's said to be a piece of paper, but it's actually very big. The bamboo curtain used for paper fishing cannot be the size of a book, which is too labor-intensive, so the paper is more than two feet wide.

Chen Jian studied some ink, picked up the brush and tried to write a few words, although it was ugly, but he could finally feel the feeling of waving it, and there was no need to write as small as possible to fit the not too wide bamboo slips as before.

Pine ink leaves a thick ink on the rough paper, and the quality of the paper is acceptable, and it has the basic function of writing.

No matter how bad paper is, it is also paper, and the appearance of paper means that the possibility of culture and knowledge monopolizing the aristocracy disappears. Whether it is parchment or wooden tablets, it is either expensive or troublesome, and it must be troublesome for culture to spread, and it is very important to want to acquire knowledge and one's own financial resources.

Now that the Xia Kingdom is still small, once it expands, an official may have to read a brief piece of wood every day, but there may only be a dozen pieces of paper in exchange.

Coupled with the minimum literacy education system that Chen Jian wants to establish, it is simply not possible to support thousands of children in the future.

Without paper, it is inevitable that some things will only circulate in a certain small circle. Whether it is the interpretation of theocracy or the spread of some technology, it can only be confined to a small scope, and ignorance can really rule for thousands of years without change.

No amount of praise can be overstated for this invention of the people of the previous life, which is the basis on which the bottom can become a human being, and most of the time before it was nothing more than livestock.

The papermaking workshop must be completed as soon as possible, but how many people need to be sent? What is the annual production? This, in turn, requires a plan. More manpower is wasted, less is not enough.

"Why, not counting the previous beating and boiling, now a person can fish for several pieces of paper like this a day?"

Li He shook his head and said, "It's not fast, one person can get forty or fifty sheets a day, right?" But gradually it's getting faster, and now it's mainly that I don't know how much to catch when I'm fishing. This thing cannot be measured, and can only be familiarized with little by little. I estimate that if you can catch it every time, you can catch about three or four hundred pieces a day, and it will be impossible to get it faster. ”

Jian Chen sighed, looked at the large piece of paper in front of him, if it was cut into sixteen parts, it would be about the size of a book, maybe a little bigger.

He wrote a few words on the paper, took out the seal and stamped it, and handed it to Li He Yidao: "Send it to the Planning and Statistics Department and cut this paper into sixteen copies as a pattern." Tell them to come up with a number. According to the number of children in each registered school plus the textbook 60 small pieces of paper per year, and then ask the construction department to report the number of windows of the new house this year, the paper that officials at all levels need to record is in excess of a part. ”

"After the statistics, take them to me for review. Tell them that this is the first time they've planned something on their own, to make it pretty, to remind me of something I haven't considered. ”

I thought about calculating the result by myself, but after thinking about it, I decided to let someone else do it, and the bird should always sharpen its wings slowly when it grows up.

Li Heyi took the paper with the seal on it, and on it was the seal of the Department of Planning and Statistics, which belonged to the dictatorship of Chen Jian.

"Sir, don't you have to think about buying these papers from other cities?"

"Don't think about it for the time being, you can't write, what do you do when you buy paper? Go ahead, I'm going to Aushiro in a few days, let them figure out a result as soon as possible. ”

Li He said goodbye and left, took the paper that replaced the previous writing on cloth, and came to the busy Planning and Statistics Division, where more than 20 people were lying on the small wooden table, and people kept getting up and going to take out a roll from the pile of wooden tablets stacked next to him.

The people inside were all familiar with Li He, and when they saw him come in, they greeted him and continued to be busy with their own affairs.

"This is the order that Ji Xia asked me to bring......"

He roughly said Jian Chen's request, and a group of people all stopped what they were doing and gathered around, looking at the paper that could be written with novelty, and then at the wooden tablet in his hand, and couldn't help asking, "This is paper?" Is that something out of a new workshop? ”

Several people looked at the ink on it, which had not yet completely dried, and felt the light weight in their hands, and sighed in amazement.

They knew that a new workshop was being built by the lake, and they had heard of the name paper in advance, so they were very curious to take advantage of the break to walk around the workshop a few times.

But after watching it for a long time, I was disappointed, only to see all kinds of grass and wood being soaked and beaten into pulp, and I really couldn't figure out how this thing could make the kind of thing that Ji Xia said that could write and paste the windows.

They imagined what paper would look like, but never thought it would be like this.

"Hey, that's good, we don't have to use wooden tablets anymore. As long as there is paper, it is enough. ”

"Yes, the wooden tablet is too troublesome and too heavy, and it is not easy to find something."

Li He smiled and said: "Yes, Mr. also said that in the future, you will not use wood and bamboo slips when you use paper." That's why the gentleman asked you to count the number of plans, so that we can get the manpower as soon as possible. It can't be too much and affect other things; It can't be too little, it's not enough, but it's not enough. ”

The group asked a little nervously, "Ji Xia really doesn't care?" Let's get it all? ”

"yes, it shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Li Yi didn't do such a thing, he just understood it roughly, and asked casually, but the person next to him sighed and said, "Where is it not difficult?" It's not difficult to just count how many people there are, but the difficulty is to estimate in advance how many people will use, which is difficult. ”

"Not to mention that we officials use it for writing, and we don't use it for gluing windows, it's only for school children, which is a headache. Children want textbooks, and this paper can last for many years like wood? Or will it be shattered in a year or two? Even if it doesn't break, it can break if you look through it often. ”

"In addition to textbooks, from next year onwards, there will be more children who need to enter the Enlightenment School, and after the establishment of our Xia City, there will be more births and fewer deaths, and there will be more people who have survived, and now those children have grown up. Now that it has become the Xia Kingdom, there are sixty or seventy thousand men and women all of a sudden, and Ji Xia ordered that the children in five or six years must go to the Enlightenment Academy, and there will definitely be a large number of them at that time. ”

"The workshop is easy to build, but the materials and skilled workshop workers need to be prepared in advance...... That's not something you can conjure up in a month. By the time those children go to school, they don't even have enough paper, and then we will be stupid, and the children will have to scold us. ”

"But if there are too many workshops, and it affects farming and other things, there is enough paper, but there are not so many people who use it, and it is not good...... This thing is estimated to be useless in other places except for our Xia Kingdom, and this is not a copper and iron weapon, and paper can't be exchanged for things. ”

Li He nodded, somewhat understood, and sighed: "Just a piece of paper, you can see the difference between our Xia Kingdom, and if you think that other cities will not use money and people to build these things." ”

The man hummed, "It's always good to build." I just hope that those children will understand how difficult it is to come by these papers, and not play in the school hall, which wastes the taxes paid by tens of thousands of people and the labor of everyone in the workshop. ”

"They must understand." Li didn't know what to say, so he had to be relieved, and the man smiled and motioned for him to sit casually first, and he wanted to discuss the matter with the people in the Planning and Statistics Department.

Soon, the young people in the room gathered. Li thought that they would be able to figure it out soon, and it happened that there was nothing to do today, so he looked through some wooden tablets at random, waiting for everyone to come up with the results.

More than 20 young people sat in a circle, one holding a brush and a wooden tablet, according to the name of the Xia Kingdom, the person who wrote the book, also known as the clerk. The Department of Planning and Statistics was regarded as the first group of young people who were literate and proficient in arithmetic in the entire pre-Xiacheng education system, and they were definitely descended from Chen Jian, so many styles were also incompatible with the rest of the cities at this time.

The clerk didn't procrastinate, and said directly: "Everyone knows about this, and there must be a few people to do it." But let's not be busy dividing who will do it, let's talk about how to plan this thing first? ”

Someone immediately answered: "If you want me to say, you have to figure out where to use the paper first." Classrooms, textbooks, official records, pasted windows. After the statistics are calculated, I have to go to the paper workshop to calculate how many people are needed from picking materials to producing paper. ”

"Ji Xia still has twenty days to go to Sucheng, I think it is enough for four people to be responsible for this matter."

"You can build a workshop with the least amount of need, and get some skilled workshop workers first. Next year, we will do another count and make a plan for three or five years, so I think we have a lot of time, more than 20 days. In these 20 days, as long as we calculate the minimum amount needed by next spring, we will first set down the workshop and wait for next year's wheat harvest to be built. At that time, there were already skilled ones, one with three, and they could always be busy......"

Li He looked at it for a while. Secretly funny, these people talked a lot. Many people can't say everything, but after three or five people are combined, some problems are solved.

The clerk picked up the brush and first wrote down the general words of the men, and then asked for the opinions of the people on each of them. According to the custom of the clan era, those who agree will raise their hands, and those who disagree will not raise their hands, these people are doing this kind of thing alone for the first time, so many things may not be right, but after some discussion, the tone of this matter is still set.

After about half an hour, the discussion was finally over, and four people were selected to take charge of the matter, and what was roughly needed to be done, and the clerk handed over the wooden tablets that had been recorded before, so that they would not forget them.

In the end, the four people came to Li Heyi's side and said, "Tell Ji Xia that we will make a plan in half a month." ”