Just when Liu Qi sighed, Kuai Ruyu walked in and said with a smile: "Now we have added another sister to our family, it is really gratifying, although the husband is still in the system, but the three-year period has passed in a flash, and now a year has passed, and there will be two more years to include you in the house, and then there will be a group of children in my family, and there will be successors to the great cause of the husband." ”

Although Liu Qi likes to be beautiful, but after all, he feels a little depressed when he is put on a show, and he has indeed stayed here for a longer time, for fear of being discussed by those old scholars under his command, so he stood up and said that there was still something to deal with in the house, so he ignored the sneers from behind him and left in a wolf manner.

No matter how the ladies surrounded Zhen Luo to congratulate him, he said that Liu Qi came to the mansion to take care of things, and occasionally opened a letter, but found that the letter was actually Liao Li, the general of Diannong.

Liu Qi opened the letter curiously, but found that this was a good news, it turned out that after nearly a year of exploration, Liao Li's Juntian Order was actually in Jiaozhou, the southeast of Yangzhou Huiji and Jingnan sparsely populated areas have been well promoted, not only the local barbarians, Yue people actively participated, even Jingzhou, Yangzhou hinterland some landless people are also attracted by the generous policy, have abandoned their family business, led their people to the south, where to receive a lot of wasteland and seeds, etc., Development is carried out day and night.

In just half a year, the land that has been reclaimed under Liu Qi's Sanzhou rule has increased by thousands of hectares! The tax revenue alone is as much as more than 100,000 grains and 10,000 horses of silk.

In addition, Liao Li also trained tens of thousands of militiamen, although the combat effectiveness of these troops is not high, but they are all people's own food and equipment, greatly reducing military expenditures, and these troops are used to defend the locality, maintain law and order is enough, even some of the more sophisticated teams and the regular army is not too far behind, even to the front line to fight is not impossible.

Liao Li also mentioned in the letter that he planned to mobilize the people to build and dredge rivers and ditches after the autumn harvest in order to make agricultural production more convenient.

Finally, Liao Li also put forward several problems, hoping to get the support of the Ordnance Division, these problems are mainly the lack of agricultural tools, drinking water difficulties, lack of cattle, etc., among which other difficulties are easy to solve, the most important is the difficulty of water diversion and irrigation, many lands are obviously very close to the water source, but due to the high and low water in the fields, separated by cliffs and other problems, it is impossible to bring water to the fields. Although Liao Li made a drinking tool orange, the effect was still not ideal.

Liu Qi smiled, and immediately wrote a letter to Liao Li, telling him to try his best to solve the problem of lack of farm tools, and at the same time build more cattle farms, relying on breeding methods to increase the number of cattle, as for the problem of water diversion and irrigation, he gave a few attentions, one is for the problem of water can not be diverted across the cliff, and proposed a special tool "connecting tube", that is, to open the thick bamboo through the joints, and then connect them one by one, so that the water can be led to the opposite side of the mountain stream and cliff valley.

In addition, Liu Qi also taught Liao Li to make zuò tube cars, which can be divided into bamboo tube cars and wooden tube cars according to the material. The cylinder car is a huge water wheel, standing upright in the river water, a number of bamboo or wooden cylinders are obliquely installed around the wheel, using the power of water flow to push the main wheel, the wheel around the small cylinder is scooped into the water in order, to the top of the dump, and then connected to the wooden trough, which can be introduced into the canal field.

After writing the letter, Liu Qi ordered someone to send it to Liao Li.

Liu Qi didn't expect that he had just passed down some of the irrigation tools and methods he had learned from the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and what kind of role had he played in promoting history?

Liao Li couldn't help but be amazed after receiving his letter, he didn't expect that his assistance could have so many genius ideas, these things are not difficult to make, but they are very practical, just suitable for solving the problem of water diversion and irrigation in remote areas, and for the construction of cattle farms, Liao Li is even more in favor of it, and immediately ordered to prepare to start building, and at the same time he also ordered skilled craftsmen to study and manufacture cylinder cars, and pass on the method of building connecting cylinders to the people, It immediately solved the most difficult problem of water diversion and irrigation.

Since then, Jiangnan agriculture has been further developed, becoming the most prosperous and prosperous area in the entire Han Dynasty, and also laying the most solid material foundation for Liu Qi to finally pacify the world.

Liu Qi solved more problems today, just after he wrote a letter to Liao Li, he saw that Song Zhen, who was engaged in literature, came to see him.

Because at the time of his wedding, Song Zhen resolutely maintained Kuai Ruyu's face, Liu Qi respected him very much, and always treated him with a teacher's courtesy. ”

But seeing Song Zhen silent for a moment, and then said: "Lord, there are two pieces of news here, one good and one bad, I don't know which one the lord wants to hear?" ”

Liu Qi was stunned when he heard this, and then said, "Sir, let's talk about the good news first." ”

"No. The good news is that since the lord has vigorously supported me to establish a county school, a county school and a township school in Jingzhou, my Jingzhou Shangxue style has become unprecedentedly strong, there are no less than 10,000 students in Xiangyang alone, and there are about 50,000 or 60,000 students in the entire Jingzhou, if you count the students in Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, I am afraid that the students in other places in the entire Han Dynasty are added up, and it is only this number, and the contribution made by General Zhennan and the lord to my Han education is really unparalleled. ”

"Hehe, this is also the result of the joint efforts of all scholars like Mr., if it weren't for your call, we wouldn't have such a grand occasion in Jingzhou." Liu Qi smiled, and suddenly asked, "Is it because Mr. has come here recently that there are too many students?" ”

A hint of admiration suddenly flashed in Song Zhen's eyes, and he arched his hand and said, "Exactly." Because there are so many students, these practitioners in our three states feel that they are unable to engrave so many scriptures, and the cloth is too precious to use it to write hundreds of thousands of volumes of scriptures, it is really unimaginable..."

"It turned out that this was the case, hehe, this is all the negligence of the official. Sir, don't worry, I have a method that can make Mr. quickly produce a large number of scriptures......"

"Huh? Are you sure? Please also ask the Lord to teach me. Song Zhen turned out to be an anxious person, and before Liu Qi finished speaking, he cut off the conversation and hurriedly asked.

"Hehe, does Mr. know Cai Jingzhong?" Liu Qi was not impatient, and asked with a smile.

"Guiyang Cai Lun? Isn't he a eunuch? How did the lord mention him? A trace of disdain flashed in Song Zhen's eyes, and then he said.

Liu Qi was stunned when he heard this, he almost forgot that Cai Lun was a eunuch, Song Zhen was a Confucian scholar, and he looked down on eunuchs the most, so it was normal to have such a reaction.

So after thinking about it for a while, Liu Qi said softly: "We don't need to mention Cai Jingzhong himself, this will mainly talk about his improved Cai Hou paper, in fact, we can write the scriptures on paper and paper, and then print them into a book and pass them on to the students." ”

Unexpectedly, Song Zhen smiled bitterly and said: "Although the lord's proposal is good, but if paper is in short supply everywhere today, and many processes are lost, where can we solve the problem of paper?" ”

Liu Qi was confident, and said to Song Zhen: "There is just a good news here, with the growing popularity of my Jingzhou Shangxue, we have also attracted a lot of literati and scholars to come, the first few days there was a person named Zuo Bo came to Yangzhou Academy, this person Ziyi, Donglai people, originally came to the word meaning of the same township Taishi, with the help of Ziyi's recommendation, to my Yangzhou Academy to visit the celebrity Hua Ziyu, Yan Mancai, Cui Zhou and other people, but listened to their advice, left to persuade the study to engage, I know that he has thaumaturgy, improved papermaking, He was transferred to my Jingzhou Ordnance Division, as Han Gongzhi's deputy, specifically responsible for the production of paper, and now the paper production in Yicheng has begun to take shape, and it will not take half a year to meet the needs of my Sanzhou scholars. ”

"Oh? Is there such a good thing? Since this is the case, then the lower officials immediately sent people who were proficient in scripture to Yicheng, and asked them to immediately copy the scriptures by hand, presumably within a few years, they would be able to meet the needs of my Jingzhou students for study. After Song Zhen finished speaking, he immediately got up, arched his hand to Liu Qi, and then prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, Liu Qi suddenly grabbed him and asked with a smile: "How many scribes can I have in Jingzhou?" Even if they copied books day and night, when would they be able to copy tens of thousands of sets of scriptures? What's more, working overtime like this will inevitably make mistakes, how to avoid this? ”

"Huh? This, I have to do my best, can copy a few more sets and count a few sets. Song Zhen sighed, shook his head slowly, and said.

"Hehe, sir, don't worry, there will be a way to solve this problem, as long as the supply of paper is sufficient, I can guarantee that a complete set of scriptures will be available at any time." Liu Qi stood with his hands in his hands and said with a faint smile.

"Huh? What the? Does the lord have a way to solve such a problem? Is this, is this true? Song Zhen couldn't help but be dumbfounded and said in disbelief.

"Hehe, my set of technology is called printing, as long as Mr. carved the scriptures on the wooden board backwards, and then dipped ink on the wooden board, and printed it on the paper, hehe, a printed scripture book is like this, because this is a wood carving board, we can print the scriptures repeatedly, even if it is printed hundreds of thousands of sets there is no problem, Mr. think about it, we use such efficiency to print the scriptures, wouldn't it be light to solve the problem of the scriptures? And it also reduces the number of errors, as long as we check the woodblock a few more times to prevent it from making mistakes, can the printed scriptures still be wrong? ”

"Actually, there is such a miraculous method, printing, hehe, lord, I really convinced you." Song Zhen couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately bowed respectfully to the ground, and said with an excited smile on his face.