A few days after the end of the Battle of Xiapi, Xue Li returned triumphantly with a thousand Xuanjia troops, and this time he not only successfully completed the task of cutting off Tao Qian's grain route, but also unexpectedly captured Tao Qian's grain transport officer Mi Fang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Thanks to this, Xue Li can be regarded as officially integrated into Liu Miao's camp.

Mi Fang is the younger brother of Mi Zhu, a wealthy businessman in Xuzhou, and Mi Zhu personally came to negotiate with Liu Miao. If it was in normal times, Liu Miao wouldn't mind taking this opportunity to make friends with Mi Zhu, but at this time, Liu Miao's mind had already flown back to Jiujiang, so he didn't do much entanglement, so he released Mi Fang, but he still knocked five hundred excellent war horses from Mi Zhu. Five hundred horses is nothing to the hugely rich Mi family, but whether it will make Mi Zhu feel pain is not something Liu Miao cares about.

Then Liu Miao entrusted all the affairs of Xiapi to Xu Da and Zhang Liao, and he himself took Liu Ji, Hua Mulan and Xue Li to return to Shouchun.

Liu Miao's trip to Xiapi has gone through more than a month, and Jiujiang County has changed a lot in this more than a month, the most obvious is that the displaced people who used to be everywhere have become almost invisible, and busy ordinary laborers, land reclamation, road repair, ditch digging and so on can be seen everywhere, a thriving scene.

Xue Li, who had just arrived, was amazed and glad for his choice. Liu Miao is also very satisfied, it seems that Zhong Miao and others are doing a good job.

"Childe!"

Mu Guiying, who knew that Liu Miao had returned, waited outside Shouchun City early, and when she saw Liu Miao for the first time, she became radiant, cheered excitedly, and galloped to meet her. Seeing that the brocade guards behind her were dumbfounded, they didn't expect that there would be such a side to their unpretentious commander.

"Gui Ying!" Liu Miao was also very happy, and shouted almost at the same time as Mulan.

After coming to this time and space, the closest to Liu Miao are Mu Guiying and Hua Mulan's two daughters, in the past, they always followed him, one was gentle as jade, and the other was lively and smart, which always made Liu Miao feel happy. This time he went to Xiapi, Liu Miao only brought Hua Mulan alone, and left Mu Guiying in Shouchun to be in charge of Jinyiwei, Liu Miao often felt that something seemed to be missing around him, and even Hua Mulan became much more silent.

"Childe, no matter where you go in the future, you have to take Gui Ying with you, Gui Ying is too boring to be alone in Shouchun." Mu Guiying naturally turned the horse's head and walked parallel to Liu Miao.

"Good!" Liu Miao smiled and nodded, he didn't think that Mu Guiying, who had a quiet personality, was also afraid of boredom, "This is a special situation, and in the future, things in Jinyiwei will be on the right track, so you don't have to stay in Shouchun all the time." ”

"Thank you, Childe!" Mu Guiying said happily, "The skeleton of Jinyiwei has been erected, and in the future, we just need to keep filling the human hand." ”

"Gui Ying and Mulan are both heroines and geniuses in the sky, I believe in your ability." Liu Miao laughed, and then asked, "Mr. Zhong, do they all know that I am back?" ”

"I didn't tell them. They were so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground every day, and even Li Jing was pulled by them to help. ”

"It's hard for them to be lifted, and there is still a lack of manpower!" Now Liu Miao's talents are not small, but compared to what needs to be done, the shortage is still very large. But he also knows that this is not something that can be solved overnight, and the current Liu Miao's attraction to talents is still not enough, and the self-hematopoietic function of the college has not yet been opened. Talent and development are actually a process that complements each other and promotes together.

Putting aside this topic for the time being, Liu Miao asked about another thing, "Yuan Shao sent his subordinate Zhou Ang to take the position of my county guard, what happened?" ”

Mu Guiying glanced at Liu Miao in surprise, she was about to report this matter, but she didn't expect Liu Miao to already know, but she didn't think much about it, thinking that it was a letter from Zhong Miao or Li Jing to Liu Miao.

That Zhou Ang did not hold the holy decree, but just took Yuan Shao's letter and went directly to the Taishou Mansion to ask for office, of course Zhong Xuan did not agree. Zhou Ang brought hundreds of soldiers and horses, and he wanted to use force, but was finally expelled by Li Jing with his troops. Later, he went to Danyang County, and the current Danyang Taishou Zhou Xin is his brother, it is said that Zhou Xin's position as Taishou was snatched in this way, and the original Danyang Taishou Zhou Shang was directly sent back to his hometown by Zhou Xin. ”

Liu Miao had heard of Zhou Ang before, Zhou Ang was once appointed by Yuan Shao as the assassin of Yuzhou, but he was preempted by Sun Jian, but he didn't expect to be sent to Jiujiang again. Liu Miao knew that Yuan Shao's name was still very useful among some local scholars, and it was very likely that Zhou Xin could succeed in taking office because Zhou Shang was scrupling about Yuan Shao, but in Liu Miao's eyes, Yuan Shao's warrant was just a piece of waste paper.

Although Zhou Ang did not succeed this time, it also reminded Liu Miao that he should pay more attention to this aspect in the future, otherwise he would always be annoyed by Yuan Shaozhi and his ilk.

"When Zhou Ang came, did he have contacts with the major clans?" Liu Miao has always been not very at ease with those heroes.

Mu Guiying said: "No, Zhou Ang probably felt very sure, and went directly to Taishou Mansion after arriving in Jiujiang." After that, he was expelled, and he didn't have the opportunity to contact the major families. ”

"Zhou Ang or Yuan Shao shouldn't give up easily, you have to tell Jinyiwei to pay attention to monitoring the movements of the major clans and Danyang County. In addition, there is also the Yangzhou Thorn History Mansion, where Yuan Shaoneng sent someone to seize the Jiujiang Taishou, and he may also send someone to take the position of Yangzhou Thorn History. ”

"Don't worry, Childe, Gui Ying has already arranged it."

"Good. Where is Mr. Chung now? ”

Mu Guiying replied: "I should have gone to the workshop, I heard that the printing that Gongzi said has eyebrows, and Mr. Zhong and Zheng Wengong have been staying in the workshop in the past few days!" ”

Liu Miao was overjoyed and said, "This is really good news. Let's go, let's see! ”

When Liu Miao walked into the workshop not far from Taishoufu, Zhong Xuan, Zheng Hun and several craftsmen were holding a few thin pieces of paper and comparing them with each other, which was exactly what Liu Miao had asked for, and it took them nearly a month.

It wasn't until Liu Miao walked to the side that several people found out that they hurriedly greeted Liu Miao.

Liu Miao stopped everyone's politeness, and went over with great interest and picked up a piece of paper in front of him.

At first glance, Liu Miao knew that what he wanted was really dramatic. It was a yellowed piece of paper with several finger-sized clear black letters on it.

For Liu Miao, who was accustomed to books in later generations, this piece of paper seemed to be very inconspicuous and even rough, but he knew how difficult it was to make this paper with words in this era.

It is such a thin thing, which contains several products of the era—papermaking, ink-making, engraving and printing, and simplified characters in italics.

If it weren't for Liu Miao's system assistance, he might not be able to make this thing.

Among these techniques, the most difficult is papermaking, Liu Miao himself has no concept of papermaking at all, only knows that some wood and bamboo can be used as raw materials for papermaking, so at that time Liu Miao directly purchased papermaking technology from the system, trained a craftsman, and then taught the rest of the craftsmen.

As for ink making and engraving printing, Liu Miao was limited by the contribution points at that time, so he did not buy it, but told Zheng Hun and Zhong Xuan all the information he knew, and they took people to study it, but he didn't expect it to be true.

PS: The best paper in this era is Zuobo paper, because its process is complex and the output is very small, basically only in the palace or the homes of important officials of the imperial court. Cai Lun paper is usually more common, Cai Lun paper has a dull color, rough texture, and poor permeability to ink, so it is not very suitable for writing. But even so, not everyone can use it. Usually the court documents are basically written in slips, silk, Jane is cheaper than Cai Lun paper, silk is expensive but soft and light, wide in size, writing quality is better than Cai Lun paper.