In Hongfu, Qujiang County, Hong Qiu was helped by several family members and just entered the lobby, and was kicked out by his son Hong County Lieutenant.

"Get out! Why did Lao Tzu give birth to such a little beast as you, who was tricked, and stupidly drilled into it! Lao Tzu will not have an old face in front of his brothers in the future! ”

Lieutenant Hong roared. He just learned that his son had been tricked into prison, and he was beaten.

"Ahem...... Dad, you scolded me for being a brute, didn't you even scold yourself...... The child was calculated only by mistake, you can rest assured, tonight, the child will get this back! ”

Hong Qiu got up from the ground, and while explaining to his Lao Tzu, he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, repeating in his heart: This revenge is not revenge for the grandson!

"Get out!"

With two swishs, two kitchen knives flew out and stuck on the ground in front of Hong Qiu. It almost slashed at Hong Qiu's foot. The kitchen knife was bright and shining, glowing with an eerie cold light.

Hong Qiu shivered, and the few family members who helped him also swallowed their saliva, their legs trembled, and they didn't dare to come out. This Hong County Lieutenant was known as the Thirteenth Taibao, with two kitchen knives stuffed in his waist and rampant in Shaozhou, with a short temperament, not afraid of heaven and earth, and he was a complete ** ruthless stubble.

A few people helped Hong Qiu turn around quietly and walked towards the east wing.

"Shabi, have you found out? Are they sure they want a private meeting tonight? ”

Hong Qiu asked in a low voice.

"Childe, it's true. The little one spent ten taels of silver to buy the two maids. ”

The younger brother Shabi said affirmatively.

"Well, get the brothers ready guys, act tonight. Hehe, it's a godsend. Tonight, I can cook mature rice with Mr. Yishang, as for you kid, hehe. The vicious dogs of the Wild Wolf Valley are worried that they have no dry food. ”

A hideous sneer overflowed from the corner of Hong Qiu's mouth.

……

Confucius, the gate.

Gu Ren and Dandan were about to go in, but they were suddenly stopped.

It was a few strange family members who stopped Gu Ren, and Gu Ren inquired before he learned. This morning, the property of the Confucian Mansion has been handed over to the Lu family to manage. More than half of the dozens of families in the Confucian Mansion were dismissed, including the three brothers Guapi, Gou Pi and Xiang Jiao Pi, all of whom were dismissed. Most of the current employees are new employees who were recruited the day before.

Gu Ren remembered that when he came to the Confucian Mansion the morning before yesterday, there were many men at the door who were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they were queuing up with a sigh of blood. It turned out that the husband and wife of Master Kong had been ready to go to Shaozhou for a long time. It's just that the original plan was to marry Kong Yishang to Hong Qiu, and then the two went to Shaozhou. Now that Gu Ren is out of this basket, don't think about marriage, they can only go to Shaozhou with their daughter.

The family guarding the door got a death order and did not allow Gu Ren to step into the Confucian Mansion for half a step.

Gu Ren didn't force his way in, and asked the family to go in and call Sanqi. After a while, Sanqi came out, and because Dandan's presence, she didn't complain about Gu Ren anymore.

Tell Gu Ren that at night, under the old locust tree outside the backyard wall of the Confucian Mansion, there will be no dispersion.

Gu Renmei smiled, his thoughts were clear, and he was refreshed.

"Senior brother, where are we going now?"

Dan Dan looked up at Gu Ren and asked.

"Well, let's go back to Tianji Temple. Is your dad still in the temple? Go back and play two games of chess with him. ”

Gu Ren thought for a moment and said.

Dandan: "Daddy is not in the temple, he went to Shaozhou." Senior brother, why don't you go to the south of the city for a walk. Daddy left me a few taels of silver and asked me to give it to my cousin's family for relief. ”

"What do you say? Your father asked you to give a few taels of silver to help your cousin? ”

Gu Ren couldn't help but laugh. Dandan's son Zhang Jiuling is the prime minister, and his cousin is the prime minister's brother, no matter how bad he is, he won't be given a few taels of silver.

"Alas, senior brother doesn't know, although Daddy worships the prime minister, he is upright, loyal and dutiful, and impartial. Therefore, I did not cheat for personal gain, and helped my relatives get an official position. Most of them are self-sufficient. Or study to gain fame, or do some small business, or work in the official workshop. My cousin Zhang Zhaocai's family has been working in the official workshop of Shaozhou for more than ten years. It wasn't until last year that I returned to Qujiang. I planned to do some small business with the silver taels I had saved over the years, but unexpectedly, I lost all my money in just a few months. Up to now, the life of the family is unsustainable, if it weren't for Daddy's help...... Alas......"

Dandan sighed.

"What kind of business can you lose more than ten years of money?"

Gu Ren asked curiously.

Dandan: "Opened a small workshop for the production of paper. ”

"Papermaking? This freshness, I've never seen it before. Let's go over and see. ”

Gu Ren and Dandan were talking as they walked down the street towards the south of the city.

……

The county seat of Qujiang is not big, and it only takes two quarters of an hour to walk from here to the south of the city, and it will take half an hour to use the time of the later generations.

The people living in the south of Qujiang City are basically some civilians and small traders doing business.

Gu Ren and Dandan followed a small path and entered a large courtyard. The yard was large, fenced in, and due north, there were several dilapidated houses.

After Dandan shouted, a man in his forties walked out of the house, along with a young man in his twenties, and two children of five or six years old.

That man is Dandan's cousin Zhang Zhaocai, and the young man is his son Zhang Jinbao, who is also Dandan's cousin. The two five or six-year-old children are Zhang Jinbao's sons.

"Zimo, are you here?"

Zhang Zhaocai is a simple and loyal man, and after seeing Dandan, he grinned. Although he was only in his forties, he had deep wrinkles on his face, a rickety waist, and some gray hairs in his hair.

"Hmm."

Eggs should be.

"Zimo, who is this?"

Zhang Jinbao had the same dark skin as his son Zhang Zhaocai, and looked at Gu Ren honestly.

"Brother Jinbao, this is my senior brother Gu Ren."

Dandan's introduction.

"Hmm. Uncle Cai is good, Brother Jinbao is good. ”

Gu Ren greeted with a smile, but his eyes fell on a large pool in the courtyard. The pool was large, white, and smelled faintly rancid, soaked in bits of bamboo and piles of straw. There were also a few bundles of bamboo and several piles of straw stacked on the side.

Dandan: "Senior brother, that's the paper workshop of my Uncle Zhaocai's family." It's this thing that wasted the savings of Uncle Zhaocai and his family, so that the aunt and sister-in-law went back to their parents' house...... Now it's good, it's a stinky pool. ”

Zhang Zhaocai and his son slowly lowered their heads, with some sadness on their faces.

"Alas, this is the life of the poor. Doomed. Jinbao and I have discussed it for a while, and this thing is not satisfied with the bottomless pit. Tomorrow, fill this pool, and then go back to the official workshop in Shaozhou, and start all over again. ”

Zhang Zhaocai looked at his son with a little unwillingness, he didn't want his son to be like him, just a worker in an official workshop for the rest of his life.

This official workshop of the Tang Dynasty is actually a black-hearted factory in later generations, working in it, not learning anything, just exchanging life and time for a meager income.

"Daddy, it's nothing, I'm still young, as long as I survive this now. There will be a chance in the future. ”

Zhang Jinbao is very strong.

At this time, Gu Ren suddenly walked straight to the pool, and Zhang Zhaocai, Zhang Jinbao and Dandan followed.

Gu Ren walked to the edge of the pool, squatted down, and watched carefully. Some of the bamboo straw soaked in it has broken down into fibers, making the water in the entire pool slimy.

Gu Ren vaguely remembered some of the processes of ancient papermaking, papermaking in ancient times, to go through five or six procedures, the first of which is to chop the bamboo and float the pond, cut the bamboo tender bamboo, put it into the pond, cut and soak for more than 100 days, and use natural microorganisms to decompose and wash off the green skin of the bamboo. Subsequently, the bamboo obtained above is put into a "wandering" bucket and steamed with lime for eight days and eight nights. Next, take out the bamboo treated above,

Put it in a stone mortar and knock it with a stone hammer until the bamboo is broken, which is like a mud surface. Finally, the material is swept into the curtain and covered with curtain pressing. After drying, it becomes paper.

This is from the record in "Tiangong Kaiwu", Tiangong Kaiwu is a book of the Ming Dynasty, this is the Tang Dynasty, and the technology should not reach the record in Tiangong Kaiwu. It is certainly not possible to make paper directly from pulp, as was the case in later generations.

Isn't the water in this pool natural pulp? Just a little processing and it's paper! How much paper can be produced in this pool...... This Tang Dynasty paper is very valuable...... It's not the same as post-modern. Got rich...... Got rich......

"Gu Gongzi, this is just a stinky pool, there are no fish and shrimp in it, and it will be filled in tomorrow for future farming. If you like fishing, let Jinbao take you to the Ten Mile Lake outside the city. ”

Zhang Zhaocai thought that Gu Ren saw that there was a pond here, and he wanted to fish for leisure.

"Uh...... Uncle Zhaocai, do you want to get rich immediately? ”

Gu Ren smiled slightly, and then looked at Zhang Zhaocai's father and son seriously.