solved a hidden danger of heavy dà, which made Li Zheng a lot easier for the time being.

He can unscrupulously put Liangzhou's specialties into commercial circulation and earn a lot of money for the pasture, and there is no need to worry about the enemy.

After all, the money in Li Zheng's hands has always been in a tight state.

With the expansion of territory, although most of the infrastructure projects in terms of people's livelihood require slave labor, there are also many places that need to spend money. In particular, military salaries -- because the rest of the families under Li Zheng's rule, except for the newly resettled displaced people, were not short of food, most of the soldiers chose to pay their salaries in money.

Now under the command of Li Zheng, plus the soldiers captured by Han Sui in the First World War, and excluding some unqualified people, the scale has reached 100,000. Excluding the need for food from the families of some of the soldiers who had just been brought under his command, there were about 60,000 or 70,000 people who chose money.

According to the military salary specifications set by Li Zheng at the beginning, these 60,000 or 70,000 people can almost empty the existing money in Li Zheng's hands within a year.

It can be said that under Li Zheng's rule, the food problem is easy to solve, but in terms of money, it has always been very tight. Therefore, Li Zheng attaches great importance to commercial trade.

In addition, Li Zheng is already planning to issue his own currency.

However, this is not something that will be done in a short time, and it is just an assumption now.

At the end of the lunar month, the New Year is approaching.

The research institute under the industrial branch of the Ministry of Government Affairs under Li Zheng submitted an exciting news.

The white and delicate paper, which is not easy to soak in ink, has been studied!

Li Zheng ignored this matter earlier, but with the expansion of the territory, more and more government affairs need to be dealt with, and a large pile of bamboo slips are transported by car all day long, which is not only inconvenient to write and browse, but also consumes more manpower and material resources.

That's why paper came to mind.

In these years, there was already paper, which was the famous Caihou paper. It was created by Cai Lun to summarize the experience of his predecessors. This kind of paper is mostly popular among people at the bottom and is not really accepted by people at the top. The reason for this is that although Caihou paper is cheap and simple to work, one of them, immersed in ink, is a large piece of paper. The second is that it is not conducive to preservation, the paper is too fragile, a little wet, or it will rot over time.

Therefore, more than 100 years after the invention of Caihou paper, high-level people still use bamboo slips, wooden slips, and silk.

After Li Zheng issued an order to the Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry to study papermaking, he once went to the research institute many times to propose to the craftsmen some of the only words they knew, but I didn't expect that after more than a year, the finished product was finally produced!

A stack of white and exquisite, moderately thick textured paper was placed on Li Zheng's desk, and Li Zheng touched it again and again, and his mouth was full of admiration.

At that moment, a commendation order was issued, and the craftsmen who participated in the papermaking were praised and the merit was counted once. At the same time, it is solemnly said that the craftsmen are the first batch of sages who are qualified to be included in the sage altar, and will record the improvement of paper on the sage altar for future generations to admire and pass on forever!

When Li Zheng's commendation order reached the research institute, the craftsmen involved in the paper research all burst into tears. They used to be the common people at the bottom of society, they did not have enough to eat, they did not have warm clothes, and no one in the upper class would look down on them. But I didn't expect that they would one day be listed in history!

What a great glory this is?!

The entire research institute was in a frenzy of excitement. Although most of the craftsmen are disappointed because they did not participate in this matter, as Li Zheng said at the beginning, as long as they can study good things that benefit the country and the people, they can also go down in history!

Li Zheng did this, the first of course, because of the great significance of paper. With cheap and fine paper, it is first of all a sign that it is easier to spread civilization and more convenient to promote education. Secondly, this is the benchmark. Taking this as a reference, it is presumable that all kinds of inventions of research institutes, and even non-governmental organizations, will be sought after and valued, and can stimulate their development in a very large way!

Now that paper has been studied, the next step is printing.

This is not difficult for Li Zheng, it is too simple.

Movable type printing, all Chinese characters are engraved on a seal-like character mold, printing any book, only need typesetting.

At that moment, Li Zheng ordered Xun Yan to take over the matter, prepare to establish a paper factory, and print books.

When paper production became regular, the materials related to government and military affairs under Li Zheng's rule had to be immediately transcribed into paper books. Of course, this category, especially when it comes to some secret materials, requires a special heavy paper that can be preserved for a long time.

When the needs of the government and education are met, the paper will be quickly popularized among the people

The next day, Li Zheng was in a good mood, had breakfast after morning exercise, and was about to go to the school to see his daughter-in-law training, but received a summons from Xun You's Lan Xiangniao.

It's just that there is a visit from a friend who knows it, and I ask Li Zheng to rush over and see him.

When Li Zheng heard the news, he couldn't help but turn his mind, and an expectation immediately rose in his heart.

Xun You's close friends, Li Zheng knows about it, and there are only a few. Is it Guo Jia? Still is

Li Zheng's heart jumped slightly.

Now under him, although he already has capable people like Jia Xu, Xun You and Xun Yan, he still feels that there are not enough manpower. Many times, when Xun You was dealing with government affairs, he had to take a certain amount of part-time military affairs. While Jia Xu is handling intelligence, he is also concurrently engaged in certain military affairs, so his authority is not very clear. This is all due to a lack of manpower.

Although Xun Yan is a good candidate, after all, he has just served under Li Zheng and has not yet received Li Zheng's full trust and closeness.

Now that Xun You's close friend is visiting, he must have been invited by letter at Li Zheng's request. And most of those who are willing to come to Liangzhou are already biased towards Li Zheng, so for a while, Li Zheng's heart became excited.

Don't dare to slack off at the moment, and immediately set off and went to Lingzhou

In just two quarters of an hour, Li Zheng galloped all the way to Lingzhou. Entering the General's Mansion, he asked Xun Yu where he was, turned around and rushed over.

If it is according to the rules of the imperial court, there will be many departments under the jurisdiction of the Zhengxi General's Mansion, and there will be a large number of official positions of various Sima and engaged in the same class. But when it came to Li Zheng, it was much simpler, and it was only divided into two departments, one to deal with daily affairs and the other to deal with emergency military affairs in wartime.

Xun You is in the study where he deals with daily affairs every time he works.

Before Li Zheng arrived at the study, he heard a hearty laugh from the study from a distance, which was Xun You's.

Slowly approaching, the sound inside came to my ears clearly.

"It's really a pity that Brother Guo didn't come over." An unfamiliar voice said: "Gongda, you don't know, when I came to Luoyang a few months ago, speaking of Liangzhou, Brother Guo had the idea of coming here to have a look, but unfortunately the uncle and aunt of the Guo family did not allow it." ”

"It's also helpless. There is a way that the parents are not far away, not to mention that the Guo family is an uncle and mother, if the younger brother Guo leaves, there is no one to take care of him, but it is not filial. This is Xun You's answer.

When Li Zheng heard the conversation between the two, he had a guess in his heart.

Most of the 'little brother Guo' in their mouths is Guo Jia, and what makes Li Zheng a little disappointed is that it is not Guo Jia who came to Liangzhou this time. However, since he can be friends with Xun You and Guo Jia, he must not be an idle person.

Thinking of this, Li Zheng had already walked to the door.

Knocking on the door, Li Zheng smiled and said, "Gongda is here!" ”

"It's the lord who has arrived!" Xun You's voice came: "Lord, please come in!" ”

Li Zheng took off his shoes, pushed open the door and walked in, and Xun Yu greeted him first and gave a salute. Immediately, a young man behind Xun You who had no expression but a very deep look in his eyes slowly got up and also gave a salute.

Li Zheng returned the salute and said with a smile: "You two don't have to be polite, please take a seat." ”

As he spoke, he took the main seat, and then secretly looked at the expressionless young man, and asked Xun You with a smile: "Mr. Gongda, don't you want to introduce me quickly?!" ”

Xun You laughed and said, "Lord, this is your subordinate's close friend, Yingchuan Opera Zhicai!" ”

Drama Zhicai!

It turned out to be him!

The strategist who followed Cao Cao very early in history and died of illness halfway!

Immediately, Li Zheng's eyes became hot, and he hurriedly smiled and arched his hand: "It turned out to be Mr. Xi, this general is polite!" ”

Since Li Zheng entered the door, Xi Zhicai has been looking at this prestigious general of Zhengxi, and seeing that Li Zheng is not arrogant and enthusiastic, he nodded secretly in his heart at the moment, so he got up and said: "Xi Zhicai has only seen General Zhengxi!" ”

"Sir, don't be polite!" Li Zheng hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Mr. can come to Lingzhou, I am here to shine." ”

Next, the three of them started chatting.

didn't say anything about the general trend of the world, nor did he say anything about invincibility, just spinning in a small place. Most of them were asking from Xi Zhicai, and Li Zheng and Xun You answered and explained.

And most of Xi Zhicai's problems are doubts caused by what he has seen and heard along the way.

After getting Li Zheng and Xun You's answers, Xi Zhicai couldn't help but praise again and again.

The image of the general in front of him also became full in his mind, not as empty as before.

Li Zheng answered all questions about Xi Zhicai, and did not hide it at all. For example, when it came to Li Zheng's ambition at the end, Li Zheng was blunt and only said that he wanted to fight the country. This made Xi Zhicai satisfied, in his opinion, this is the posture of the hegemon. Concealment, but lost the grandeur.

After some exchanges, Li Zheng affirmed the ability of Xi Zhicai, in terms of vision, not much worse than Xun You and Jia Xu, especially the sensitivity of the mind and the sensitivity of the response, which makes people secretly surprised. And Li Zheng feels that Xi Zhicai is still very distinctive, that is, facial paralysis. Whether he is happy, excited, hateful, etc., it is difficult for him to express his feelings through facial expressions. Only those eyes are the most profound and boundless, which people dare not underestimate.

Then there was a reception banquet, after three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, Xi Zhicai was in the endless aftertaste, when he was slightly drunk, he worshiped Li Zheng.

Li Zheng was so happy that he drank high that night.

Although the ginseng malt wine is mellow, it is also intoxicating. What's more, if you don't get drunk, everyone gets drunk. When you encounter something very happy, you are sorry for yourself if you are not drunk.

Not only Li Zheng, but Xun You and Xi Zhicai were also drunk, and in the end, they were taken back to the guest room to rest by their subordinates.

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