"This is it?!"

"Homecoming, this is exactly what it is!"

In the ancestral house of the Yang family, Yang Tai took the paper he asked for from Zhang Xi and told his thoughts to Yang Ji, the head of the Yang family and also his father.

"If we win the paper-making skills, one can copy the collection of various classics for the use of heirlooms, the other can buy the heart of the family with this thing, and the third can also make a profit. I think that this is a good opportunity for the rise of the Yang family, and the head of the family should not miss it. ”

After Yang Tai finished speaking, he bowed to the head of the family and the elders of the family to show respect.

At the clan meeting, Yang Tai had to call Yang Ji the head of the family according to the rules, and Yang Ji at this time was not only Yang Tai's father, but also the head of the family.

After listening to Yang Tai's story, Yang thought for a while, then looked at his brother and uncle, and asked, "Elder family, I don't know what you mean?!" ”

After a slightly noisy discussion, Yang Tai's third uncle said, "This matter, but as Tai'er said, my third room thinks it is feasible." ”

Yang Tai's fifth uncle stood up again and said, "This matter is not allowed. I'm afraid that my Yang family doesn't have this ability, so I ask the head of the family to think twice. ”

Yang Tai's second uncle thought for a while, and also said, "This matter is indispensable, there are pros and cons, but I think that those who are cautious will not become a big deal, and if they can fight, they may not succeed." ”

Yang Tai's fifth uncle retorted, "Although my Yang family has been inherited for more than 200 years, it is still not comparable to Huang, Yan Er's family, if you rashly intervene in this matter, I am afraid that the two families will retaliate." ”

Yang Tai's third uncle also joined the battle group and said, "The fifth brother's words are too much, don't you know that Yan Yan, the head of the Yan family, is critically ill, and now the Yan family's three rooms and big rooms are fighting, I am afraid that there is a sense of separation, and the Yan family is no longer afraid." ”

"What about the Huang family?!" Fifth Uncle Yang Tai said, "Even if the Yan family is not afraid, the Huang family is still powerful, how can they sit back and watch us and others enjoy this matter alone?!" The Yizhou family, not only the Huang family, the Li family, and the Zhang family, if they knew about it, they would not give up. ”

"It's okay, why not join forces with the Huang family to fight against Li and Zhang's second family?!"

"How could the Huang family do such a self-shutting off foundation?!"

"I don't know if you know that the Huang family has no intention of replacing the other?!"

“.”

Yang Tai watched a group of uncles and uncles arguing, some of them could understand, but most of them couldn't.

What are these uncles and uncles talking about, isn't it just to get papermaking, this kind of thing, our Yang family will take it by themselves, wouldn't it be good to make a lot of money in a muffled voice, what does it have to do with the Huang family, the Yan family, and even the Zhang family and the Li family who are developing in Chengdu? !

Yang Tai was puzzled, and couldn't help but look at his father, who was the head of the Yang family.

Yang Ji glanced at Yang Tai slightly, told him to shut up, listen quietly, and when the quarrel was over, he would explain to him later.

And the quarrel in the Yang family's ancestral house did not have a result in the end.

It was at this time that Yang came forward and made a decision.

It's not easy to be the head of the family, and the people who manage each house have to work hard to maintain the family's livelihood, let the family grow and develop, and make each house satisfied, and finally have to ensure that the head of the authoritative family of his own lineage is not so easy to be.

Although his son is smart, he is not deeply involved in the world, and he has not had much contact with some dirty things within the family. But for the sake of the future, there are some things that should be exposed to this child.

Yang immediately stopped the quarrel between the rooms and said, "What Tai'er said makes sense. The risks are not small. ”

Saying that, Yang looked at his son and continued, "The matter of paper, as Tai'er said, if we can master it, it will indeed be an opportunity for my Yang family to rise." It's just a child, paper is a thing, the former Han Dynasty already has it, the eunuch Cai Lun has improved the process, can write, can paint, but the paper has not been popular in the world, occasionally Zuo Bo paper, in the end can not know why? ! ”

"This," Yang Tai was speechless, so he had no choice but to say, "I also ask the head of the family to teach me." ”

Yang both nodded, very satisfied with his son's attitude.

To understand is to understand, and if you don't understand, ask questions, and there is no shame.

Yang Ji explained to Yang Tai, "We are a family and make a living from farming and reading. The so-called cultivator is the field, so the ancestors were keen to hoard the land. And readers, classics too. If there are no classics, how can we call scholars? The thing of paper is indeed a sharp weapon for education, but if this flow falls to the people, the head of the Hanmen Qianshou is recorded with this thing classics, reading and literacy, and the difference between our family and the head of the Hanmen is just how many acres of land there are. Therefore, whether it is Caihou paper or Zuo Bo paper, it can only be used by the family, but it cannot be used by the people. ”

To put it simply, once paper is popularized, and both the poor and the common people can read, the status of our family will be invisibly equal to that of the poor people.

Therefore, Cai Lun has improved the papermaking technique, and the family will use it, but he will definitely not take the initiative to promote it.

A few years ago, Uncle Zuo made Zuo Bo paper, and in the past two years, Uncle Zuo's grave grass has been three feet high, and how many people have seen a few pieces of Zuo Bo paper?!

The family likes paper, but they don't like it to circulate.

"Moreover, now Liu Zhijun Chengdu is in charge, re-establishing the official school, since Min and other fortunate people cut out the classics and establish classics, if this thing helps, we and other family heirlooms may become a side door, if we interfere in this matter, I am afraid that it will be the target of the public."

Yang Tai suddenly realized.

Now Liu Bei has re-established the official school in Chengdu, appointing Yi Min and others to choose the classics and eliminate unreliable doctrines, which is essentially competing with the family for the right to annotate the classics, and at the same time, it is also competing for the right to speak in public opinion.

Originally, the families were very unhappy, if the Yang family intervened in the manufacture of paper at this time, they would help Liu Bei promote the paper to Quanyizhou. Those families can't do Liu Bei, who has soldiers and food, and they can't do your Yang family, a second-rate family in Ba County?!

But there was one thing that Yang Tai didn't quite understand, so he bowed down and asked, "Family Master, the method of paper improvement was created by Zhang Junshou, and Liu Yuanjun is afraid. Sooner or later, you'll get it. ”

Yang both nodded and said, "If this is not the case, how can your third uncle and fifth uncle agree to your suggestion?!" ”

Yang Tai didn't understand it again.

If there is a lot of risk in doing this kind of thing, why do you have to do it?!

Let Zhang Xi dedicate the method of paper-making to Liu Bei, Liu Bei will promote, let the dissatisfaction of the Shuzhong family vent to Liu Bei, and our Yang family can stay out of the matter and watch the excitement.

Yang Ji smiled and explained, "Although this matter is risky, if we take over this matter, it is to take refuge in Liu Zhijun, if Liu makes Jun successful, we can ride the wind and go up for a generation of heroes, if Liu makes Jun work out, we can also sit on the art of papermaking, as a talisman, even if we can't soar into the sky, but we can also save the family business, so that the family will not be separated." ”

After listening to this, Yang Tai pondered it carefully, and found that it was his father who was really acting as an old man.

In this year's family, there is no concept of monarchs and ministers, let alone the concept of a family and a country, everything is for the development of the family.

If there is a benefit to the development and growth of the family, they will not care who the lord is, let alone what other families think, as long as there is a chance, they will come forward to fight, and the old will not be passed on for too long.

Yang Tai used to think about things from the standpoint of an ordinary scholar, but now Yang Ji, his father, personally told him how to think about things as a qualified head of a family.

Other people's opinions and interests are not important, as long as there is an opportunity to maximize the interests of your family, and at the same time you can arrange a way back, then go and do it boldly.

After saying these words, Yang stood up and said to everyone, "This matter is a risk for us, but it is also a good opportunity. ”

In this way, Yang decided to let Yang Tai help match and discuss with Zhang Xi about the Yang family's papermaking agency.

Zhang Xi is also very cautious about this matter.

It's not anything else, it's mainly that Zhang Xi now has a long memory.

The attitude of the Yang family is too abnormal, and they are so active and enthusiastic that they are willing to help promote paper, and they are even willing to persuade Yan and Huang to cooperate with the land clearance, which is a bit wrong.

What did you do half a year ago?!

Such a big contrast before and after caused Zhang Xi to also begin to reflect - this paper is really so heavy?!

Then Zhang Xi began to recall, when was this paper really popular? !

Xuan paper seems to have been born in the Tang Xuanzong period, but it really spread to the people, it seems to be the Song Dynasty. Why the Song Dynasty?!

Zhang Xi pondered along the timeline for a long time, and finally caught a clue.

After five dynasties and ten kingdoms, after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, there was no decent family at that time, only the wealthy families who did not have a climate remained, coupled with the prevalence of the imperial examination system, paper naturally spread among the people.

Think about it again. Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty improved papermaking and was put on the shelf; At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zuo Bo improved his skills and made Zuo Bo paper, and Zuo Bo people were gone; In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Hu people invaded, and the clothes crossed to the south, but paper was slowly used among the wealthy families. The Sui and Tang dynasties were unified, and the paper gradually left from the family to the cold door, and in the Tang Xuanzong period, there was even high-quality and low-cost rice paper.

After going through five dynasties and ten kingdoms to the Song Dynasty, paper gradually entered the people's homes.

This looks like a history of the promotion of a piece of paper, but it's actually the history of the family's weakness, right?!

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the family was powerful, so paper could only circulate between the court and a small number of families.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the power of the family was still strong, so Zuo Bo's Zuo Bo paper was just a flash in the pan, and it didn't spread at all, and it was most likely that the family on the other side of Donglai was privately hidden, as long as I didn't make it, no one could use it.

After the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the power of the family weakened with the war, and only some of the great families could be comfortable in this era, so the paper gradually spread from within these great families.

It was not until the unification of the Sui and Tang dynasties that the power of the family was greatly weakened, and the Guanlong military merit group suppressed the family, which allowed the paper to flow from the hands of the family to the cold door.

In addition, Yang Jian and his son, Li Shimin and his son, plus a Wu Zetian, spared no effort to suppress the family, which made it possible for Xuan paper to appear in the Tang Xuanzong period.

As for the war of the five dynasties and ten countries, there are no families, and some of them can survive, and they can only be regarded as a strong place, and they can't control the circulation of paper at all, so the paper gradually spread to the hands of the people, laying the foundation for the development of the imperial examination system later.

If you consider the problem from this perspective, Zhang Xi was surprised to find that it can still be logically consistent.

But there is still a question here that Zhang Xi doesn't understand - if Zhang Xi is right, then Yang Tai's father, Yang Ji, is also the head of the Yang family in Bajun, why should he meddle in the promotion of paper.

It doesn't make sense, right, he's also a family.

Zhang Xi is not Zuo Bo, he is the core figure of Liu Bei's group, holding the military power of a county, and may even mobilize a large army to suppress the rebels at any time, it is impossible for the Yang family to control the circulation of paper by controlling Zhang Xi.

Even to put it mildly, as long as Zhang Xi handed over the papermaking technique to Liu Bei, it was not the family that had the final say, it was Liu Bei's final say.

So, what does the Yang family want to do?!

Do you simply want to make a profit from papermaking technology, or do you have other plans?

Zhang Xi never understood this question, and it wasn't until Zhuge Liang came to Yufu in person that Zhang Xi got the answer.

(End of chapter)