The current Chang'an City was built by Emperor Yang of Sui.

The Grand Canal has been dug up, and the scale of Daxing City can be imagined. It is really big, larger than the later Xi'an City, and the population is also quite a lot, the population of Yongzhou has reached more than two million, and there are more than one million people in Chang'an City.

But in this way, the people in the north are very dense, but the south is sparsely populated. It is a little better to go along the two sides of the main street of the Suzaku Gate to the Mingde Gate, like the Yongyang, Heping, and Chang'an squares in the southwest, and the suburbs are similar, the history books say that there are leopards, wolves, tigers and leopards from time to time, which is exaggerated, but what weasels, wild foxes, there are indeed a lot. The southeast is a little better, stained with the light of Qujiang Pond. But compared to the north of the city, it is also very desolate.

The location of the bamboo tree selected by Li Wei is in the southeast of the cultivation workshop, not far from the Great Ci'en Temple, and there is only one cultivation workshop in the middle of the Jiang family's Shengping Workshop, so that it can be taken care of at any time. Xiuzheng Fang itself has the convenience of the Yellow Canal, stretching out a small canal from Qujiang Pond and extending all the way. Papermaking requires more water than crops.

The Xiuzheng Workshop itself is very desolate, because there is a Yellow Canal, the south is the Qujiang Pond, there are many trees growing upside down, and the rest is a lot of Tianmo, there are people planting vegetables and crops, and there is also a scenic spot, that is, the peony banquet of the new jinshi, which is held in the Xiuzheng Workshop. Next to the Yellow Canal, there are several stone pavilions and pavilions, and some flower beds. In normal times, many students also come to take some tours.

The place where the bamboo is soaked is not very far from the peony banquet, and occasionally a few students come here to visit, and after seeing it, they are inexplicable, and they are very suspicious to guess.

The pool was also divided into a dozen. I only know how tender bamboo is used, and I don't know how tender it is. Different young and old, different fibers, will have a great impact on the quality of paper. The fibers of bamboo make the paper very thin, but there is a disadvantage, high brittleness. If you don't choose the right young bamboo, the paper will break as soon as you pull it, which is not beautiful.

After trying it with her hand, Bi'er said happily: "Your Highness, the bamboo is soft." ”

"Well," Li Wei responded, it had been soaked for more than forty days, and it was time to be soft. After all, it's not old bamboo. However, I have some regrets in my heart, I went to Luoyang a little earlier, and if I delay it for another month and a half or two months, I can bring the new paper to Luoyang and add another point for myself.

Li Xian stared suspiciously at the tender bamboo in the water and asked, "Big brother, you said that this bamboo can make paper?" ”

"Yes, and it's very thin, and the cost is very cheap."

In fact, thin is already cheap, and then the material, bamboo, how many places in the Tang Dynasty have it? Like some parts of the south, the whole mountain is made of bamboo. As Li Xian thinks more, the paper is thin and cheaper, which means that more people can read. Moreover, as soon as the paper is thin, the book has also become thinner, like the current "Book of Songs", if it is bound together, even if it is copied in small block letters, it is also very thick. It is easy to carry, too.

And that's not all.

Another example is printing, now the cost of engraving printing is very high, a stone slab engraved with words, if a wrong word, or the chisel force, then knock an extra stone, a stone slab will be scrapped. Besides, how many man-hours it takes to engrave so many words on a stone slab. It can be printed once, and the slate is useless.

Paper is expensive, and not many people can afford to buy books, so the number of books engraved and printed is correspondingly smaller, and the cost is getting higher and higher. But the paper is thin, the cost of books drops, and more people buy them. The possibility of engraving printing has risen.

Even Li Wei wanted to get a copper plate movable type printing, afraid that people would say, so he put up with it, otherwise it would be cheaper.

This was a milestone in the cultural promotion of the Tang Dynasty, so it is not an exaggeration for Li Wei to think that its significance exceeds that of Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

But Li Xian was still pacing around suspiciously, and finally asked, "Big brother, are you sure it can produce tissue paper?" ”

"I am convinced," this is caused by bamboo fiber, and it is difficult to think of it as thin.

"Big brother, did you see it from that ancient book?"

Li Wei experimented with new crops in Huangzhuang, and this incident gradually became popular, which is easy to explain, and there are a lot of records in "Qi Min's Technique". But this bamboo paper?

"This matter is a little weird, we went to Dongshi together that day, second brother, do you remember?"

"Yes."

"That day, Wei Siwen spoke disrespectfully to his father and queen mother, and I was very disgusted, "I stepped Wei Siwen into the mud all of a sudden, what should I do?" Even if I don't step on it, I guess my parents have heard about it. Besides, even if you hear it, you just laugh and laugh, like the people in the neighborhood are very angry with your mother, but what about your mother?

This idea is not right, and later in history, the whole country whistleblowered, so it is not that there is no such element in it. There is resentment, but Wu Zetian put it in his heart and did not have an attack.

He also said: "Later, when I came to the paper shop and saw a lot of paper, a scene suddenly appeared in my mind, as if I saw the ancestor Taizong, with his father and mother, standing in front of rows of bamboos, and then these tender bamboos were put in the water, and finally turned into very thin and white paper. ”

If it weren't for the technology in "Heavenly Creations" and the addition of lime, the bamboo paper would be brittle and yellow at first.

Li Xian said in amazement: "Are you saying that God saw the political virtues of Taizong and his father, the emperor and the queen mother, and rewarded you with inspiration?" ”

"But, but," Bi'er was a little anxious, this was obviously the credit of the prince, if this was said, wouldn't it become the credit of the emperor and the queen. As for Taizong, the credit is too high, and there is no need for this to add icing on the cake.

"But what? That's true," Li Wei replied solemnly.

At this time, people were very superstitious, and when this sentence was spread, most of the people took it seriously. Although it is not confusing parents, especially mothers. She may have thought that she had gotten the recipe from somewhere, so she erased the credit and gave it to her and her father.

But is this wrong?

I'm afraid that the mother who is so happy that even Feng Zen has to go with her is the happiest.

Li Xian looked at the eldest brother again suspiciously, opened his mouth, and did not say anything. Let's wait for nearly two months before the new paper comes out.

After looking at it for a while, Li Wei said, "Let's go out of the city and take a look." ”

When I arrived at Huangzhuang, the banks of the seedlings planted in the village were well served. He even sent two tenant farmers to catch insects on the leaves and seedlings, and as for the sparrows that came down to see if there were any insects, how far and how far they could catch them. In fact, they don't need to send people, some farmers come to see it every day.

At this point, the people of Huangzhuang are still interested and do not stop it. These peasants are also helping to see how much grain the prince's new method can produce.

The little seedlings are growing very well, and in a blink of an eye it is a three-leaf leaf, facing the warm twilight wind, and happily showing a strong posture.

The steward said, "Your Highness, Miao Er is growing very well. ”

"Well," I can make a comparison, there are sorghum seedlings in other fields, and there are also sorghum seedlings with three or four leaves, but the seedlings in these small banks are much taller. Can it not be strong? One person eats porridge and salted radish all day long, and one person eats beef and drinks milk, compare and try.

The steward said, "But Your Highness, is it a little sparse when you transfer it?" ”

This steward, that is, in charge of the work of the imperial village, is very proficient in crops. It would be a pity if such a good seedling was ruined because of sparse planting.

Li Wei stared at him, looked at it, and said, "Actually, there is another method, there are a lot of seedlings, you can test it, a little thinner, or a little thicker." Look at the best row spacing at the end. ”

The seeds are different, and the later seeds cannot be served so carefully, the difference is that some fertilizer is sprinkled, but now the fertilizer is piled up, and the amount of fertilizer used is not lacking. It's a seed, but it's suspicious. What if the row spacing of future generations does not match the current seed?

The steward hesitated.

Li Wei said again: "Don't worry. It's not fame, it's a real planting method. If the people can have a better harvest, even if one acre of land can be harvested more, what impact will it have on the imperial court? ”

"Whoa!"

Seeing that the people in Huangzhuang were so servant, Li Wei relieved his heart and looked at Datian again. The field began to dry the fields, and some of the milk vetch and artemisia annua were rotten, but the soybean straw was not completely rotten, and withered brown stalks appeared in the ground.

But because of the rot of the green manure, the exposed soil was shiny with oil.

At least the strength of the earth has.

This is the hope of Datang. Looking at these more than ten acres of land, Li Wei sighed with emotion, and then thought of the strength of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, he really didn't want to, and he didn't want to run away......

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"Sister Li, why haven't you seen you for a few days, so thin?" Pei Yuhe said.

"Sister He, I hated other men that day, so I let the prince bear me, did I do something wrong?" Xu Li asked.

The entire capital has been talking about the case of the assassination of the prince in Zhongnanshan for most of the month. Helan Minzhi is a rat crossing the street, don't mention it. Then the first person who accused was Yang Min, and the second was Xu Li, saying that she was not sensible, and the prince was not in good health.

Concubine Xu is also coquettish, take a look at this poem: Come to the mirror platform, put on makeup and temporarily return to Pei. The daughter smiled at the beginning, and a summons can come

Taizong sent someone to summon her, and the other concubines would be overjoyed, but she played a little temper, and the ancient daughter began to smile, and now Your Majesty, do you want me to go as soon as you say hello?

But people took the overall situation into account, and in his later years, Taizong built a lot of construction and conquered Goryeo, so she wrote an article "Admonishing Taizong to Stop the Army and Strike Shu", which said: "...... It is the food of the palace of the low, the place of the holy king; Jinwu Yaotai, the proud lord is beautiful. Therefore, there is the king of the way, and the people of Yiyi; The king of the wayless, with pleasure...... The practice is thrifty, I am afraid of its luxury, and the practice is extravagant, how can it be systematized? ”

The style and truth are no less than Wei Zheng's "Ten Thoughts of Emperor Taizong".

In this comparison, Xu Li is too far behind.

The Tang Dynasty was open, and even the emperor and empress dared to talk about it, and even the literati dared to use poetry to open the brush, not to mention the little Xu Li. There were many people discussing, and after Xu Li heard it, she didn't dare to go out.

Pei Yuhe thought for a while and said, "I don't know, but the situation was really dangerous at the beginning. ”

To cover up is to say that you are doing something wrong!

"I, I, I don't know, but when I see the prince, I want to be close in my heart," Xu Li tried to say this sentence in her heart, and then cried loudly.

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"Big Black, Little Black, let's go," Bi'er said reluctantly looking at the two hovering swallows.

Li Wei persuaded: "It's just a trip to the Eastern Capital, maybe in two or three months, we will return to Xijing." Besides, they'll be back next year. ”

"It's just that I can't see Little Black anymore."

It's a pity that swallows grow up very quickly, and if you persist for a while, you can see that Big Black and Little Black are teaching these little swallows to fly. But you can't wait for them to grow up and stay in Chang'an.

"Let's go," Mr. Li said.

"Hmm."

The group got into the car and began to leave the capital. It's just that before the prince's trip, too many things happened, so when he went to Luoyang, many people cared about him and worried about it......

PS: It's finally time to meet Lao Wu. It stands to reason that this is the first volume, but this book is about not as long as the talent, so I was too lazy to divide the volume.