Chapter 37: Mulberry Paper

With the edict of the Son of Heaven, the impact of the news of Zhou Yafu's death gradually dissipated, and the wise citizens of Chang'an gave up their plans to continue to discuss the Zhou family's suffering, and the civilians who did not feel the direct benefit were always forgetful, they almost forgot the sorrows of more than ten years ago, and the grievances and hatreds between the Son of Heaven and the lieges were more like after-dinner conversations.

The residents of Chang'an, the capital division, paid attention to another new thing, the imperial Shi Zhao Yu made a big fuss in the Tangyi Hou Mansion, and the princess of the pavilion Tao spoke and insulted her, and the two sides made a big fuss and caused a storm in the city.

Zhao Yu is not a simple person, the fifteen servants on the side of the Son of Heaven belong to him, since Zhou Yafu went to the prime minister, he has often been very favored in front of the king, and what is even more rare is to be loyal and upright, and to be meticulous in doing things, so that the Son of Heaven can vaguely see the shadow of Wan Shijun, and is known as the most promising person to be promoted to two thousand stones within ten years.

You must know that Zhao Yu is a rootless and unfounded son of a good family, not an ordinary bureaucrat who is somewhat of a dignitary, his brother Zhao Fang was promoted to the court lieutenant by the Son of Heaven for his honesty and loyalty, and he was also promoted by virtue of his years of experience as an official at a young age, and he was by no means a fortunate person who was incompetent in power.

The princess ran to the Changxin Palace and cried, saying that the servant Yushi had insulted the family and made the Tangyi Hou family lose face for this, and kept saying that Zhao Yu would be severely punished to set an example, and the old lady was not happy when she heard her daughter's crying, and called the Son of Heaven to reprimand him and order him to punish him.

However, the Son of Heaven didn't see it that way, he knew the news that the princess of the pavilion Tao was running rampant outside the palace, and he had already deliberately knocked his sister, who couldn't open his eyes, and vaguely agreed in front of the old lady, but secretly connived at the imperial doctor to appease Zhao Yu without doubt.

From July to mid-August, Zhao Yu's investigation of the case was as urgent as a fire, and the ten old officials of the Tingwei Mansion were experienced, and they took advantage of the noisy kung fu of Zhao Yu and the princess of the Pavilion Tao to figure out a clue, and found out that the family of the Tangyi Marquis Mansion returned to the mansion safe and sound, and the news of the violent death came the next afternoon.

On this day and night, in addition to his own family, only the slave of the Hou Mansion of Long Xi was the most noticeable, and the slave coincidentally was the henchman of the Hou Hou of Long, and the subordinates in the Hou Mansion were interrogated on that day to eliminate the suspect, and it was determined that the slave of the Hou Hou was the most suspicious.

It's a pity that the clues were broken here, and the henchman slave who interrogated the Marquis of Longxi hanged himself that night, and continued to identify the Marquis of Longshu as the mastermind behind the scenes became an extravagant hope, and the subordinates of the Tingwei Mansion had to attack from other directions, and found out that Cheng had gone to the Marquis of Longshu a few days before the incident to be a guest, and no one dared to continue to investigate.

The Pingyang Hou Mansion maintained the mode of watching the play throughout the whole process, neither persuading nor taking any action, until Zhao Yu, the servant of the imperial history, scared Chen Chan everywhere and begged his father to worship his mother, and Shengsheng pushed the imperial history from the fat shortage, and he secretly applauded Zhao Yu in the mansion for "insisting on going his own way".

"Why is the gentleman so happy?" Princess Yangxin held a gold-carved bow and shot at the arrow target, wiping off the sweat stains on her head, and her face was flushed with a healthy flush, since her husband encouraged her to wear no color in the backyard, it didn't take a few days for her to like the life of the plain face.

Cao Shi glanced at the center of the arrow target fifteen meters away full of arrows, and said with a smile: "Xijun's archery skills have risen greatly, and there is no shortage within twenty steps, and if you practice again, you have to change to a thirty-step arrow target to improve. ”

"The gentleman's mouth is like honey, and the concubine will be fooled by the gentleman sooner or later." Princess Yangxin was in a good mood, she didn't expect that her archery talent was not bad, and she had opened a five-bucket horn bow in less than half a month of training, although this bow was only a toy bow used by underage boys to practice, but after all, she was a woman with insufficient strength, and it was not easy to have this strength.

The servant moved the grass target back ten steps, Princess Yangxin tried to drop a few arrows on the head, and had to bend the bow like a full moon to improve accuracy, and a dozen arrows until her arm was sore, and she put down the bow and sat on the low couch to enjoy her husband's archery training.

Cao Shi is different from Princess Yangxin, he is accustomed to making a hard bow with one stone and two buckets is about 72 city catties, it is not easy to open a strong bow of this weight to open a full circle, about half of the untrained adult men can pull a stone bow, but the person who can pull a strong bow with one stone and two buckets is only afraid of less than ten percent, ordinary people lack the skill of pulling the bow, and the reckless force not only can not pull the bow but also easily hurt the arm.

The hard bow with one stone and two fights is the military standard of the Han army's archers, and there is no pressure to shoot bison elephants, Gan's father brought a pure Xiongnu-style shooting method from the Xiongnu grassland, and the bow was drawn smoothly and steadily, and the ten breathing arms did not tremble, and the arrows of Cao Shi were aimed at the birds in the sky, staring at them like statues.

Just a few breaths seemed to be incomparably long, Princess Yangxin's eyes blinked lightly and saw that the bowstring was empty, looked up at the sky and saw a big bird planted from the sky, and the cheers of the maidservants in several courtyards were sent over after a while.

Princess Yangxin held the white bird and said happily: "The gentleman has succeeded in practicing arrows, and he is gratifying." ”

"It's still far from Gan's father, and it needs to be strengthened." Cao Shi switched to one stone and two hard bows, rarely try to use the bow full moon of the long shot, pull the strong bow to gradually increase the weight, Gan's father's archery is the bow does not leave the hand edification for more than 20 years, with the right Xian Wang Xizheng Dayue clan has fought I don't know how many vicious battles, only to practice this powerful magic skill, in exchange for he wants to copy Gan's father's archery level, it is impossible to do it without ten or eight years of training.

Cao Shi is currently able to connect 100 arrows within a quarter of an hour, and the hit rate is about 40 percent, the first 30 arrows have a hit rate of 78 out of 10, the middle 40 arrows have been sharply reduced to about 40 percent, and the last 30 arrows are simply miserable because of exhaustion.

"What a big gap!" Cao Shi lay panting, his head resting on Princess Yangxin's legs: "In the last ten arrows, my hands are trembling desperately, and the target of the arrows is completely gone. ”

Princess Yangxin brought warm water to wipe his sweat, and boasted happily: "Father Gan is a strong man who is nearly forty years old, and the gentleman is only fifteen years old this year. ”

Cao Shi thought about it, it is true, the Huns galloped back and forth on the grassland desert to graze for a living, eating beef and mutton and drinking cow and sheep milk, to say that the body is thick and strong, it is true, but the diet will never be as comfortable as his respect for the princes, he is fifteen years old this year, he is more than 1.70 meters tall, and he will pass Gan's father in less than a year, and his strength will be more powerful after he grows day by day.

Although the body is strong in the bitter cold of the desert, it is not easy to maintain, and after the age of forty-five, there will be a huge landslide in a few years, and the body will be withered and shaped like a wind candle in the last years, and then it will be abandoned by the tribe in just a few years.

Father Gan is thirty-six years old Chinese New Year's Eve, according to the tradition of the Xiongnu, there are at most ten years of golden age, and then the body lĂŹ suddenly declines from a tribal warrior to an abandoned burden, and the archery skills he has honed for more than twenty years will become chicken ribs as the body lĂŹ falls, and he will not be able to fight with a hundred arrows and not lose strength, and he will turn from a hero on the grassland to a waste.

No matter how strong the lion king is, he is old after all, but he is not as nutritious as Cao Shi, his body is strong and well-maintained, and he has reached the level of Gan's father in a few years, and then slowly carved it, and it will not take long to gradually surpass him, and maintain his peak state for a long time.

The papermaking workshop brought a batch of new paper, with mulberry bark as the main raw material, it took more than 20 days to make it, the yellowed mulberry paper will not break if gently torn in four directions, the toughness is greatly improved, the ink drips on the mulberry paper without a large area of impregnation, and the surface of the paper can be the most basic smooth.

But the dull yellow skin made him very disliked, he was used to seeing the world and how he looked at the color like straw paper, Cao Shi put down a stack of new paper: "No, continue to rebuild, your process is too cumbersome, more than 20 days can only make a few thousand papers, low efficiency and raw material restrictions, I let you try mulberry does not mean that only mulberry can make high toughness paper, bamboo paper has to work harder, as much as possible to take it out." ”

The expressions of the papermakers were full of joy and suddenly collapsed, thinking that they had created the legendary unbreakable Hekwan, but in the end they were not satisfied with the order to redo it, and several papermakers froze in place with bitter faces at a loss.

Princess Yangxin held the soft and tough mulberry paper and said with a smile: "Several Heyi are very good, the prince has high requirements for you and is also kind, making flawless utensils should be the highest pursuit of craftsmen, presumably you are also determined to create a perfect Hera, and the order is that each silk craftsman will be rewarded with 5,000 yuan, and the apprentice will be 2,000 yuan, and each of you will have 10,000 yuan. ”

With a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other, the craftsmen were flattened and rounded, and those people were sometimes happy and sometimes surprised, until Princess Yangxin waved her hand and retreated like a monk's amnesty.

Princess Yangxin watched the crowd leave, and ordered the maidservant to close the doors and windows, only to show a surprised expression: "What a good thing made by a gentleman!" Is this a treasure dedicated to the Son of Heaven? ”

"Treasures? It's far from being a treasure, and it's far from being a complete body of Heya. ”

"What does it mean to be fully formed?"

"Complete, perfect, flawless." Cao Shi took a wolf pen to write down a line of fly-headed Guli, he had an iron ruler in his hand to correct the font line order, the surface of the iron ruler with a knife engraved with a straight and uniform scale and then painted with lacquer, which can be used as a simple unit of measurement, but also used as a tool to align the font and paperweight.

Princess Yangxin's eyes widened: "Flawless Hewan, what kind of perfection will it be?" ”

"White as a white cloud in the sky, hands on Heyan lubricated like milk, tough than Sampihe several times, no nasty plant fiber interference, as long as it is properly maintained, it can be immortal for thousands of years." Cao Shi lowered his head and wrote down "Lao Tzu" in 5,000 words in one go.

A pair of slender hands turned his cheeks, and Princess Yangxin looked at him innocently: "Is there really such a perfect Hewan in the world?" ”

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