"This is Heron Paper?"

Queen Wang picked up a stack of new paper, a little strange in her heart, flocculating paper is not uncommon in the court, but she has never seen as thin as silk flocculent and tenacious flocculent paper, shaking the paper to make a crisp sound, touching the surface of the paper ice like jade slid into the silk satin, lifting the pen to write a few lines of small characters on it, the ink condensed but not scattered, and turned over to the light can also see the reverse handwriting.

Empress Dowager Dou's eyes couldn't see anything, and when she heard the magic of the new paper, she couldn't help but touch it, and she was very happy to hear that the paper still had many benefits: "Pingyang Hou finally made a good thing, the bamboo slips and wooden slips are too bulky and far less light and easy to use than the silk silk, I don't know if the cost of papermaking can be afforded?" ”

Wadding paper is made of spinning leftovers, excluding the inherent fragility of wadding paper, limited by the supply of raw silk is difficult to produce on a large scale, and forcibly increasing the output must sacrifice silk fabric to make wadding paper, a bit like throwing away watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, so although people in this era are very optimistic about the prospects of wadding paper, they are not very in favor of large-scale manufacturing of wadding paper.

Empress Dowager Dou also understands this truth, so she is most worried that the cost is too high, or that it will not be able to reach mass production due to raw material limitations, otherwise even if the new paper has a thousand benefits, it is just a pleasure for the nobles in the court.

Princess Yangxin explained with a smile: "Don't worry about the imperial grandmother, my prince tried to make more than 10,000 pieces of high-quality mulberry paper for the first time in more than 20 days, and tens of thousands of pieces of bamboo paper with slightly worse quality, the mulberry paper material is selected from mulberry wood and is slightly more expensive, the cost of bamboo paper is much more saving than that of cutting bamboo and making Jane, and it can also save the people's labor of cutting bamboo and making Jane, and the cost may be lower if you calculate carefully." ”

The queen was skeptical: "It's so magical? ”

Cao Shi didn't speak, took out the bamboo flute and took a thick stack of bamboo paper, and took out the mulberry paper, the mulberry paper is oily and shiny, the paper is tough and crisp, and the bamboo paper is dark and lacks toughness.

"I thought that this girl was coaxing me to be happy, but I never thought that Pingyang Hou would really make two new kinds of paper." Queen Wang couldn't help but marvel, she knew very well that the creation of a new paper could be a coincidence, so it was inevitable to create two new papers of completely different materials.

A glimpse of the whole leopard, Cao Shi's papermaking skills are not waiting for idlers to offer a few novel and interesting things to make the queen mother happy, the role and significance of one high and one low two kinds of new paper have also risen from a simple play to a higher level, expensive mulberry paper can be used for official documents and letter paper of the government nobles, and cheap bamboo paper is also used by the people of Guizhou.

If you think about it, the common people can save money to buy brushes and loose ink when they buy paper, so that the common people in the whole world can read and write, everyone can listen to the words of the saints, listen to the fate of the Son of Heaven, know etiquette, righteousness, honesty, filial piety, loyalty and forgiveness, and everyone in the world takes the gentleman as an example, then the goal of the world's great rule and peace in everything will go further.

Queen Wang was very happy in her heart, and hurriedly talked to the Empress Dowager Dou in detail, but after a while, the old lady smiled: "Okay, good!" Pingyang Hou has merit in making paper, I will let the Son of Heaven reward you for your merits, if the princes of the world have half of the loyalty and reliability of Pingyang Hou, the world will not be far away. ”

"If the imperial grandmother has a reward, just give it directly! Father's place, the concubine went to ask for a grace again. Princess Yangxin's eyes lit up, she knew better than anyone else the mountains of treasures in the Changle Palace, and every prince and king who went to Chang'an to meet the Son of Heaven had to offer gold, jewelry, and jade to this old lady as a gift.

Empress Dowager Dou scolded with a smile: "Okay, you ghost girl, you always want to ask for a reward from the old body, so don't worry!" I will reward the Marquis of Pingyang with 1,000 gold, and serve the Son of Heaven more in the future! ”

"Thank you Queen Mother for the reward."

The two most powerful women in the Han Empire got the satisfactory answer they wanted, and then the three women chatted, Princess Yangxin praised her family's monarch and marquis for her ability, and the two elders listened with a smile.

Just as Princess Yangxin was talking happily, she was disturbed by the sound of hurried footsteps from outside the palace.

"What paper? I'm going to see. A childish voice came from the front court.

Saying that, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old young man walked in from outside, wearing a black and red robe, and his steps were fast and fast, and he stepped into the court and knelt down to salute: "Child Liu Che, meet the imperial grandmother, meet the queen mother." ”

"Che'er, hurry up." The two elders immediately smiled when they saw the crown prince Liu Che.

Princess Yangxin happily greeted the young man, and Cao Shi, who was sitting on the side, reacted and saluted, the thirteen or fourteen-year-old young man was Liu Che, the crown prince of the Han Empire.

Liu Che picked up a piece of mulberry paper and said curiously: "I heard that Pingyang Hou has made successful paper, and this new one is lighter than silk silk, and simpler and cheaper than bamboo slips, so it seems that it is really a wonderful thing." ”

"Pingyang Hou also said that this new paper will also help the Son of Heaven to educate the people, if everyone knows etiquette, righteousness and shame, presumably the world will be able to rule the world."

Liu Che was pleasantly surprised: "Can it be so magical? What a good thing! The father should reward the Marquis of Pingyang. ”

The prince was very happy with the mulberry paper, and carefully inquired about some of the benefits of papermaking, and after listening to the general manufacturing process for a while, he couldn't help but praise his ingenuity and did a great thing for the benefit of the world.

After chatting for a while, seeing that the hour was not early, Liu Che said: "The four-wheeled carriage offered by Pingyang Hou Jin is dignified and atmospheric, which is much more convenient than the walking chariot in the palace, and I am very happy. ”

"Whoa!"

The prince bowed slightly, turned around and bowed to the Empress Dowager Dou and Queen Wang, and turned to leave.

"The prince likes smart people."

Cao Shi raised his head and saw that Queen Wang said in a gentle tone: "The prince was born smart, and the Marquis of Pingyang will be the prince's minister in the future, and he must learn to become smarter and more insightful in order to gain the favor of the prince." ”

"Thank you for the reminder." Princess Yangxin pulled her husband and bowed slowly.

After another half an hour, the Son of Heaven hurriedly came to Changxin Palace to say hello, the Empress Dowager Dou was old and frail, sedentary and tired, the Son of Heaven and her chatted for a while and went to sleep for a while, leaving only the Son of Heaven and the Queen Wang to talk alone.

"Wan'er, this girl came to the palace early in the morning to present the paper to His Majesty."

The Son of Heaven picked up the 5,000 words of "Lao Tzu" and said in surprise: "This is a new thing made by the Marquis of Pingyang?" ”

"That's true, Heyi paper in the original Heyun process to innovate, the cost is reduced to the bamboo slips as low, the process is simple to make Heyun writing clear and easy to preserve." Queen Wang took out the pen and ink to rewrite the 5,000 words of "Lao Tzu" with the seal, and the font was cleaned and complete after the ink was dried, which was far brighter and more refreshing than the bamboo slips and wooden slips affected by the material.

"Got a reward?"

"No, Che'er came over to praise Pingyang Hou, it seems that he likes this brother-in-law very much, and I will let Wan'er and them go back first before the time comes."

The Son of Heaven picked up the mulberry paper and muttered: "On the day of the August sacrifice, do you remember that the Marquis of Longxi was beaten by Qu Shunhou and others? It was Qu Shunhou who beat people, and there was Pingyang Hou in the crowd of onlookers, and the reason why Long Xianhou was beaten was because he trespassed on the banquet to arrest Pingyang Hou, he watched Chen Chan being beaten without saying a word, and you also know the temperament of the imperial sister Liu Xuan, if it weren't for me suppressing the imperial sister and not letting her provoke trouble, how would the queen mother and the Pingyang Hou be happy today. ”

Queen Wang's shocked face pale: "How can it be good to offend the family of the princess of the pavilion Tao, do you want to inform Wan'er?" ”

The Son of Heaven shook his head: "No need, it's not strange that the liehous are used to inviting each other to a big banquet after the August sacrifice, and how can the personal grievances between the liehous be brought to the table and say, the imperial sister has her own I try to appease." ”

The queen asked cautiously, "What does that mean?" ”

"The reward still has to be given, so he will be named Cao Shi as the doctor of Taizhong, and his rank is higher than a thousand stones, since the prince likes him, let him walk around more in Tai**."

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