In the twelfth year of Dazhong, the New Year, this year's New Year, all the citizens of Chang'an enjoyed a visual feast, which made the people of Chang'an talk for months. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This year, Li Chen played a special new trick, he set off fireworks on the Vermilion Bird Gate.

Gorgeous and bright, full of fireworks, let the citizens of Chang'an feast their eyes. Although the time is not long, about ninety-nine hairs were released, symbolizing the longevity of the Tang Dynasty, and the patterns were not as changeable as those of later generations, simply flowering, and also brought many surprises to the people of Chang'an.

The people were pleasantly surprised, and life went on as usual. Only the officials, this year, and even in the next few years, are sad. From last year to the present, there has been another big shock in the officialdom of Datang, not that there have been many changes in personnel, a few prime ministers, the health is okay, Li Chen is used to them, and there are not too many people who have changed.

After the Lantern Festival, hundreds of officials began to resume normal work, and they had to discuss the impact of the new law. Starting from last year's fraud case that made Li Chen angry, Datang is another period of officialdom reform.

"What kind of sunshine bill is this, it's confusing." "Yes, although it will be officially implemented next year, it will be declared in the second half of this year." , two middle-aged officials, after getting off the court, went to their own department to work, and then one pulled the other person and pointed forward. Immediately, the two of them showed disgusted expressions, as if they had seen something disgusting, and hid aside.

In front of him was just a middle-aged man in old clothes, with a disheveled head, he was stuffy and doing his own thing, he knew that two people had just come in front of him, and then bypassed him, avoiding him. Then he didn't have to look up, he knew what the expressions of those two would be.

He's used to it, and everyone who sees him is the same. In fact, he was neither dirty nor smelly, and although his clothes were shabby, they were clean and tidy every day. is also taking a bath every day, and there is no smell on his body at all, the only special thing is that he is very avant-garde and has a yin and yang head.

Long hair reaches the waist, although in the Tang Dynasty, regardless of men or women, they all had long hair. But there is always a hat, or a hairpin, which is not shown like this.

What's even more special is that one side of his head has been shaved, and at present, only an inch long, which is the longest, and if it is a little longer, it will have to be shaved again, keeping a yin and yang head, which is very eye-catching. But the man was very calm, and after a long time, he had become accustomed to people's eyes.

"Wait for me." After the two officials bypassed, he was habitually hated, and then he habitually turned his head, and used the yin and yang head with his penetrating eyes, staring at the two people from behind, and the two people were stared at all over the body, and they wanted to turn around and beat him up.

However, that was just thinking about it, the two of them could only speed up their pace, return to their office area, avoid that gaze, and then, one of them suddenly said, "If you don't know how to do accounts, go to the accounting company, ask a professional accounting office, and help you calculate, this sunshine bill is not a trivial matter." The other nodded, wordlessly. Then the two stopped talking and began to bust themselves with their own business.

The so-called Sunshine Act, in fact, is correctly named the Datang Officials' Property Declaration Law', and its core content is that all Datang officials must declare their assets every year.

All officials must declare their assets, once a year, at the beginning of the year of Beijing officials, and in the middle of the year of foreign officials. However, in order to simplify the process, only those who have just set foot in officialdom need to declare all their assets, and then they need to declare annual changes in assets.

This property includes changes in the property of the person and his relatives, including his wife and children, etc., and if he is married, and the children who have separated the family separately when he is an adult, he can be counted separately.

Any change in the property of the above persons must be declared. Even if it is the annual monthly income and rice income, as long as it is not spent, it must be declared.

The purpose of declaring this is to curb that unhealthy trend and prevent officials from taking advantage of their power for profit. Does it work, if you ask? Li Chen will say that talking is better than nothing.

This bill is not completely useless, it's not like you're okay if you don't declare it falsely. It will be included in the assessment criteria. If you conceal or underreport, if you are spot-checked, it is evidence of corruption. In addition, how much property you declare and how much you can spend will also be investigated if you do not meet the requirements.

This is the basis for the investigation, you obviously have a low income, why do you have extraordinary enjoyment, is there a place for dereliction of duty, otherwise your income is simply not enough to meet your expenses.

As for the gift income, if it is too large or a large amount, of course, it will not work. Even if it is a family or friend, it is under investigation, no matter what the reason. All in all, it is to spread the property of the Tang Dynasty officials in the sun as a future test. There is a talent for the Sunshine Act to be called. If you have the right source of wealth, that's okay, you're free. This bill is only a basis for future investigations.

Of course, this is not 100% enough to eliminate corruption. It can only be said that everyone is vigilant. Maybe those corrupt officials can always find a very suitable reason to enjoy themselves and spend for themselves, and find an excuse.

However, there is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to prevent a thief for a thousand days. You don't want to be caught, maybe even the slightest omission will become evidence of your crime, and it will be a long battle with corrupt officials and human nature.

The main reason for this law is to become the basis for supervision. I don't want those officials to impeach officials with any rumors, hearsay, and talk about it.

Li Chen remembers very much that Yan Song, the traitor of the Ming Dynasty, was trusted by Jiajing and was in power for a while, but because he lost Jiajing's trust, he was thrown down for corruption. One of the incriminating evidence is that his son returned to his hometown with dozens of truckloads of gold, silver and jewelry, showing off his wealth too much.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were very poor, and Yan Song should not have so much money at all, this is the evidence of his crime. Although everyone knows it, who made you so public. As a result, Yan Song was corrupted. He was succeeded by the famous Qing official Xu Jie.

It's funny that Xu Jieqingguan is a half-Songjiang family. The Xu family is in Songjiang, and they have 240,000 acres of land. It is said that Yan Song, a corrupt official, is less than one-fifteenth of him, only 27,000 acres. When it comes to value, it's even worse.

Songjiang, this is not a poor country, Songjiang is rich and can be ranked among the top few in the world, not to mention that the Xu family has countless textile women, and the business of selling cotton cloth is more profitable than farming.

Li Chen felt very funny about this kind of thing. Being an official, of course, reputation and ethics are important, but this kind of thing can be blown out. The so-called time and poverty are not unreasonable. Therefore, Li Chen set an objective standard as a reference.

Especially the Chinese, who have always been vague, like Hai Rui, in order to let the Xu family return those usurped land, he was instructed by Xu Jie to be the imperial history, and the fish and meat squire were impeached and removed from office, which is ridiculous. A big corrupt official can impeach a clean official, although he is stubborn, but Hai Rui is still a fish squire, and there are still a few non-fish squires in the Ming Dynasty?

The sun is shining, the hundred officials are letting go of the court, and they have to go home in groups, and they are still talking about those changes, the yin and yang head stand silently in the dark, staring at these officials who have released the court, the gaze is like a substance, and everyone who is stared at feels thorned in the back, and spends his pace to leave.

"Bad luck, what did the saint do here with such a person who knows how to be angry?" Even if an official didn't see anyone, he still stepped up, "Then you still need to ask, isn't it just to remind us?"

It wasn't until the crowd was gone that Yin Yang Tou came out of the shadows, holding a piece of cardboard in his hand. This is a kind of coarse paper, the paper is very coarse, very cheap, and the yin and yang heads never thought that one day they would use this kind of coarse paper.

Paper, in the Tang Dynasty is getting cheaper and cheaper, more and more cheap, at present, a large number of this kind of coarse paper has emerged on the market, and the sales are good, because it is cheap enough, and it is very convenient for people to take it to remember things and learn words. This one is made of wood fiber. It is also the scientific development achievement of Datang.

Originally, this kind of wood fiber paper would not appear until the middle of the nineteenth century, and the Tang Dynasty is now a thousand years earlier, so that this cheap coarse paper came out.

In the past, European paper was made of ragged linen. China is relatively progressive, from hemp to bark, to straw, to bamboo, and bamboo paper has appeared in the Tang Dynasty. However, it will not be until the Song Dynasty that the sun will shine.

Of course, Li Chen advanced this step, and the high-pressure boiler was used in papermaking. Because bamboo paper needs to be steamed for eight days and nights to soften the fibers, a high-pressure steam boiler can shorten the process. And Datang gradually carried out a variety of mechanical J, semi-mechanized, so that the efficiency of the traditional manual curtain greatly increased, a worker, from the traditional to only make 300 to 500 sheets a day, the efficiency doubled, so that the cost of paper is lower, the amount is larger, more popular.

As a result, bamboo production cannot keep up in the short term. Bamboo doesn't grow slowly, though. However, farmers can count on the bamboo shoots, and now is the time to cut them down, and the price will increase. In order to deal with this problem, Li Chen thought of using wood.

Although, a large amount of timber is cut down, which will cause soil erosion. However, this can be controlled after all, as long as it is planned, planted with a plan, and cut with a plan, it is not unavoidable. That's why there was wood pulp thousands of years in advance.

There is still bamboo paper available in China, but Westerners are so pitiful that they have always used hemp or cotton to make paper. There are a number of policies in place for this. Since the advent of newspapers in the seventeenth century, the demand for paper has increased dramatically, and various policies have been introduced to deal with the shortage of linen.

For example, the simplest, print a watermark on the product, calling for saving rags. This is because the linen cloth makers rely on housewives to provide them with tattered clothes, torn sheets, torn curtains, and so on. Directly with hemp or cotton? That's expensive. These are all raw materials for textiles.

In 1666, the British government banned the use of linen or cotton for burial, saving 200,000 pounds of cloth a year to make paper.

The raw materials were insufficient, so the papermakers tried their best to replace them with straw, water lilies or turnips, but the paper produced was either brown or gray. And there are spots everywhere.

The situation, by the time of the Civil War, was even more acute. The messenger could not find even a good piece of paper, so he could only tear up some blank paper, whether it was an accounting book, a book or a corner page, and even the Bible was taken to wrap the cannonballs. Then, it wasn't that no one came up with a strange trick, so the mummy suffered.

Inhetian was taken to the United States, and as a result, a large desert was created, and as a joke, someone really put their brains on the mummy. Because the Egyptians wrapped their mummies in linen, this wise man imported mummies from Egypt in large quantities, took off their shrouds, and used that cloth to make paper. Very cheap cloth, only three cents a pound. As you can imagine, the employees of the paper mill were cursed by the mummy and contracted one after another.

Well, the Chinese are lucky not to encounter such a situation. Li Chen invented wood pulp paper in advance, using a steam engine to drive a grinding wheel to grind the wood, and using this method to make paper. Westerners, not without the idea of making paper from wood pulp, as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, someone proposed it. It's just that the wood is too hard to soak soft to get fiber. Europe also does not produce bamboo, so they have been forced to suffer for more than 100 years.

In fact, bamboo is the same, the traditional bamboo paper process, bamboo has to be soaked for at least 100 days, but with the grinding wheel, bamboo also does not need to be soaked for so long.

Yin and Yang pinched the rough hard paper, returned to the snail house, looked at the lights, Yin and Yang were in a trance for a while, and even lighting the lamp was extravagant.

He shook his head, pushed open the door, and hurriedly extinguished the small fire, which was also needed for lamp oil. He is old, he can't see clearly at night, every time he enters the night, the house will be lit to prevent him from falling, the house used to be often lit up, but now, even lighting a lamp is a very luxurious behavior.

"Master, you're back." , Back at home, the two sons came forward to say goodbye, the two grandsons ran to ask their grandfather for a hug, looking at the same shaved yin and yang head son and wife, and still ignorant grandson, he secretly vowed to return to the old life no matter what.

"Where's Yu'er, haven't come back yet?" "She took her embroidery and went to the shop to exchange some money." , white hair, half shaved, hastily tied, now there is not even a hairpin like a sick hairpin at home, the wife used to have a lot of hats, several different patterns of hairpins.

"My sister is afraid of being seen, so she only dares to go at night." His son's words made his heart ache for a while, but his heart was even more sad, he handed the paper to his son, and the younger son turned out an equally rough book like a treasure, and carefully recorded the contents on it.

After a while, the sound of the door being pushed open sounded, and her daughter pushed the door in with her head down, that is, when she entered the house, she raised her head and chested, but probably because of the long-term bowing of her head embroidery, even if she was not away for a long time like her father and brother, her head was habitually lowered.

Seeing that his daughter finally came back, he breathed a sigh of relief, it would be good for the family to be together, if it weren't for the emperor's benevolence, his daughter would have been beaten into the lower echelons of crime and become an official prostitute.

After dinner, he quickly blew out the lights, and then he looked at the small note that had been registered in the moonlight, and said secretly, One day, it will be your turn to taste this taste.