Out of the Rifle Inn, Tao Ying quickly rushed home. After returning home, the old housekeeper was already busy running around in the yard, everyone was preparing to assassinate Lord Shi's future life, although Tao Qian was not dead, but everyone seemed to know that his death was only a matter of time.

Back in the study, a very beautiful maid came in with a fruit bowl, Tao Ying took a brush and wrote quickly on some bamboo slips, he was not good at this brush word, so he wrote crookedly, and there were many words he couldn't write, because the ancient Chinese characters were used, and it was a problem to know him but let himself write.

After the maid came in, Tao Ying hurriedly ordered: "I will trouble you today, you go and recruit some skilled craftsmen to buy all the things on the list I have opened!" ”

The maid took the list and said with some embarrassment: "Young master, now that Xiapi City has been martial law, and there is no one on the street, how can I recruit craftsmen?" Tao Ying thought about it, how can you recruit people when there is no one on the street? Can't you do this yourself?

Looking at Tao Ying a little anxious, the little maid hurriedly said: "Young master, the slave maid has a suggestion, although the craftsmen can't be recruited, but there are many people in our Tao Mansion, why don't you ask them to do something if the young master has something?" ”

Tao Ying patted his head, why did he forget that there would be a family in a big family? Tao Fu is a Xuzhou assassin historian, although a little frugal, but there should be pomp and circumstance!

Tao Ying nodded at the little maid and asked him to call twenty family members to come over and listen, and the maid hurriedly retreated. Tao Ying began to work in the yard where he lived again, and it took too many materials and tools to make paper, so it was really troublesome to prepare.

However, for a graduate student majoring in military engineering, it seems that everything is not so complicated, the maid soon called twenty slaves, and Tao Ying instructed them to move the water tank and buy all kinds of materials, fortunately, the materials used for papermaking are not very expensive, and there are many wheat straw piles outside the city, which are prepared by the common people to be burned as firewood.

It is said that when Tao Ying was concentrating on inventing paper at home, the battle situation from Tanxian County soon spread to Xiapi City, and the offensive of Cao's army became more and more fierce, and Tanxian County was already in danger and was waiting for people to come to the rescue.

Sun Qian, Jian Yong and others discussed for a long time in the Supervision Yuan and still didn't know who to send, Chen Gui, Chen Deng and his son put their future on Tao Ying, so they tried their best to recommend that Tao Ying use the power of the gods to lead the troops to defeat Cao Thief.

After a few days of discussion, the two sides finally compromised, and someone came to Tao Mansion to ask Tao Ying to come and lead the troops, and let Tao Ying lead 10,000 troops to support Tan County.

Chen Deng personally came to announce his order, and when he arrived at Tao Mansion, Tao Mansion was lifeless. All kinds of Lang Zhong are constantly coming and going, Tao Qian is lying on the bed weakly, the eldest son Tao Shang takes care of Tao Qian day and night, and Tao Ying can't see anyone all day long. Maybe it's because he has no sense of existence, but no one really cares about him.

When Chen Deng stepped into the small courtyard of the pottery merchant, the small courtyard was already empty, and Chen Deng asked the housekeeper Tao Gongzi with some curiosity? The housekeeper shook his head helplessly and sighed again, it turned out that at the most critical moment in Xuzhou, Tao Ying actually escaped from Tao's Mansion and led more than 20 Ding to run to the other courtyard in the south of the city.

The ancients valued filial piety, and Tao Ying had to guard his old father every day in Tao Mansion, so he couldn't do anything, so the cute little maid gave him an idea and asked him to go to the Taoist temple in the south of the city to pray for his father!

So Tao Ying simply went directly to the Taoist temple, and took a group of family members, Chen Deng sat in a sedan chair and rushed to the Taoist temple, just pushed open the door of the Taoist temple, the Taoist temple was a little dilapidated, and there were weeds everywhere.

Because Buddhism flourished in Xuzhou, Taoism obviously declined. However, to Chen Deng's surprise, the ground was covered with some yellowed paper, one one meter wide and two meters long, some of which were laid on the ground, and some of which were hung on shelves made of rows of bamboo poles when they were dry.

Seeing that Chen Deng was coming, the family who was drying the paper hurriedly ran to inform Tao Ying, who was still frowning with a piece of yellowed paper.

Although the paper was made, it was obviously not as good as it was in their time, and it needed to be improved too much, and now the paper is made with some broken sacks and bark, and he wanted to go outside the city to get some wheat straw, but the city gate was closed and there was no order from Lord Shi, and he couldn't get out.

After the family came to say goodbye, Tao Ying hurriedly put down the paper in his hand and came out to greet Chen Deng, Chen Deng was busy giving gifts, Tao Ying grabbed it, he stuffed a piece of paper into his hand and said, "Brother Yuanlong, what do you think of this paper?" Chen Deng rubbed the paper twice and didn't know what to do with it, this was the first time he had seen this thing.

Tao Ying asked someone to bring the brush, and the family Ding polished the ink again, and Tao Ying handed the brush to Chen Deng and motioned for him to write. Chen Deng waved his pen and wrote a few words, and after a while, the handwriting was dry, Tao Ying rolled up the paper full of words and then spread it out again, Chen Deng was dumbfounded!

"What's this thing called?"

"Paper! I invented it, I named it paper, what do you think? In the future, if everyone writes on it, then there is no need to write on the bamboo slips. It's easy to carry, and a piece of paper can write more than a dozen rolls of bamboo slips, you say if I sell it like this, do you want to buy it? ”

Tao Ying just invented paper and started a business, although Chen Deng was very surprised by this invention, and also knew the significance of the invention of paper to the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it seems that the most important thing in front of him is not this!

Chen Deng put the paper aside and said: "Childe's invention is very interesting, but there are more important things to do today than this, Lord Thorn Shi has agreed to appoint you as the guard of Xiapi Town, I heard that Cao Jun will soon cross Surabaya, so let's hurry up and prepare a countermeasure!" ”

Chen Deng took out a letter of appointment as he spoke, and Tao Ying replied in no hurry: "It's okay, as long as I'm here, Cao Thief doesn't want to swallow me Xuzhou." ”

Tao Ying instructed the family not to slack off on work, to dry the paper quickly, and to learn the whole process quickly, and when he retired from Cao Thief, he would have to set up a paper mill, and he would count on this to make money in the future!

After instructing the family, Tao Ying followed Chen Deng to the Supervision Yuan to take office. When Tao Ying arrived at the Supervision Yuan, he found that he had really been fooled again, because they appointed him not to be the town guard of Xiapi, but to the town guard of Tanxian County!

At the time of the crisis, the old father still didn't seem to believe in himself, so he appointed himself as the Taishou of Tan County, which is an official position similar to the current mayor, and Tan County is not a city at all but just a county!

Kneeling on the top of the main hall, receiving such an appointment letter, Tao Ying really smiled bitterly. After Jian Yong read out the appointment letter of Lord Shi, Tao Ying had to send 10,000 soldiers to Tan County to take office immediately, saying that he was taking office, but in fact he was going to die, because it was said that Tan County had been lost.