"Go and call the best paper-making guy here!"

Back at the palace, Li Jing sent someone to summon the best paper-making master in Champang, and he was going to start using elephant dung to make paper in large quantities.

Li Jing received a report from the imperial court, the great Confucian selected by the imperial court, and the Taoist chief were on their way, and they would come here in a short time, and there was no book to teach the people here to learn.

Books are naturally inseparable from paper, learning to write is also inseparable from paper, and teachers are inseparable from paper when assigning homework.

Taoist scriptures also need to be copied on paper and distributed to the congregation to read and comprehend day and night.

Therefore, paper has become a scarce material here, and this matter must be solved in advance.

The most important thing is to have a teacher lead them into the door and teach them this knowledge.

Li Jing wants to prepare all these things for them before they come here!

"No!"

The chamberlain took the order and left.

Fifteen minutes later, the chamberlain brought back a few old men, they are the best papermakers in Champa, and they made the paper used by the Linyi royal family, they are the kings of Linyi, the royal family's royal papermakers.

"The villain has seen His Majesty the Emperor!"

The papermakers immediately knelt down and saluted!

"Get up! In the future, when I see me, don't kneel at every turn, I don't usually kneel and bow in Datang. ”

Li Jing said with a smile, let people help all the papermakers up, Datang, as a state of etiquette, generally does not need to kneel, subordinates or juniors, to the elders or superiors to bow crossed.

Bow hands between peers, only on major occasions, will kneel and bow, or be very respectful to each other, unable to express their awe in words, will also bow down to show their piety!

The chief of the bows is the most solemn of the bows, and is often used by courtiers when they meet the king.

"I don't know if His Majesty the Emperor called us here to make paper?"

They don't know anything but paper.

This is the disadvantage of the caste system, the class solidification, so that the profession they are engaged in is passed down from generation to generation, and those who farm the land will always farm the land.

Only by marrying their daughters to the upper castes can they elevate their family's caste status, which is the only way for them to get out of the fixed pattern.

"That's right! I just want you to make paper, the elephant's baba has been collected, I have people take you to see, how long will it take you to make paper? ”

Li Jing asked about the time of papermaking, according to the ancient artificial paper technology, it takes about a month to make the paper, Lin Yiguo's papermaking technology is even more backward than the Tang Dynasty, and it is estimated that the time for this paper to be made will be longer.

"If you use Baba to make paper, it will take about half a month, and if you use trees to make paper, the raw materials need to be processed, which is more time-consuming."

The papermaker gives an exact time, and the elephant's dung is processed by the digestive system inside the elephant's body, not like other materials!

Other raw materials for papermaking need to be soaked in water, chopped, washed, cooked, rinsed, pounded, added with water to prepare a suspended slurry, fished out the pulp, and dried to become paper.

Elephant dung skips the water-soaked and shredded steps, greatly reducing the time it takes to make paper.

Making paper from elephant dung is not only environmentally friendly, but also avoids indiscriminate logging.

"Good! I'll leave the paper-making matter to you, and I'll see new paper appear as soon as possible. ”

Li Jing nodded, and handed over all the papermaking matters to the papermakers, and Li Jing also asked people to arrange accommodation for these papermakers in the palace, and in the next period of time, the papermakers needed to stay in the palace for a long time to make paper.

During this time in the palace, food, clothing, housing and transportation were all covered by the steward of the palace, and Li Jing specially instructed the steward to take care of these papermakers.

Considering that it is not convenient to walk back and forth, so that they can live in the palace and take care of the progress of papermaking from time to time, in order to take better care of them, Li Jing also asked people to give their family a little money.

This made the papermakers grateful, they were the papermakers of the Linyi Kingdom for generations, and their ancestors had served the king and the royal family for generations.

Shudras, who are at the bottom of society like them, have never even touched the gate of the royal palace in their lives, let alone be able to live in the palace, which is something that several generations have never dared to think of, and they did not expect such a good thing to befall them.

After a few years, he can also pat his chest and tell others, but my papermaker once lived in the palace of Linyi Kingdom like the king, and ate the delicacies that only kings can enjoy......

It will surely envy countless others and become the pride of future generations!

The papermaker was so happy that he followed the chamberlain to see the elephant dung and prepare to start making paper.

In the following period, Han Shizhong received Li Jing's will to deal with all the ministers of Linyi who committed the most heinous crimes, and those ministers who were a little tainted were sent by Han Shizhong to various counties to assist in the office.

and lied that as long as they do a good job, they will definitely be able to go to the court of the Tang Dynasty in the future, become a high-ranking official of the Tang Dynasty, serve as the prime minister, marry Bai Fumei, and walk to the peak of life!

This can make these former ministers of the original Linyi State very happy, the high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty and the ministers of the Linyi State, they can still distinguish which one is heavier.

So, under the deception of Han Shizhong, these people did their best to assist the county order transferred from the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, manage the place, and pacify the people.

Even sporadic rebel groups were completely wiped out with the help of these people.

Li Jing commended these people, and the best performers were promoted to the local county magistrates, which can be regarded as giving them hope and making them full of energy.

There was nothing important to deal with, Li Jing went out on patrol again, went to the vicinity of Zhancheng to take a look, and saw how Han Shizhong governed this land after becoming the governor of Zhennan.

Out of the city, to the outskirts of the city, I looked up at a rice field, chaotic.

"Why are these rice staggering from side to side, and how do the people of Champa grow rice like this."

Li Jing walked on the field, looked at the rice around him, and wondered why the people of Zhancheng couldn't even plant a field.

Aren't they worried about the loss of the grain?

If you don't take care of the rice carefully, why do you grow rice, plus the patronage of small animals, it's no wonder if you don't lose your money.

"Childe, I've inquired, Zhancheng rice is different from the rice in our Central Plains, plus the climate here, this belongs to three crops of rice a year, just throw the seedlings to the ground, there will be a harvest, don't worry about food problems at all."

Ximen Yang said with a smile.

Before coming out, he had already done relevant strategies and had some understanding of the situation in the land of Linyi.

Because rice can be planted three times a year here in Champa, the people of Champa are not so concerned about planting rice, and they can grow it anyway.

Grow three times a year, even if the harvest is bad once, and there are still two more, and the locals will never go hungry.

There is no need to do everything possible to increase crop yields like the people of the Central Plains.

Even if there is a natural disaster, at most they will lose a season or two, and they have a third harvest to help them get through it.

Unless you encounter natural disasters year after year, if you really encounter such natural disasters, no matter how hard you try, no matter how carefully you plant rice and how many seasons you can plant, there is still nothing.

In the event of successive natural disasters, they can only rely on the government to open a warehouse to provide grain to tide over the difficulties, and wait for the natural disasters to pass before replanting food.

"No wonder the people here are so weak, they don't have any sense of crisis at all, Mencius said: Born in sorrow and died in peace!"

Li Jing lamented that Lin Yiguo was too comfortable and did not have any sense of crisis, which made King Lin Yi challenge the Tang Dynasty and act like this.

In the end, Lin Yiguo took the death of the country as a lesson, and he didn't know if he could make Fan Jian wake up!

"Goo-Goo......

There was a protesting sound in his stomach, and Li Jing looked up at the sky, only to realize that it was time for lunch before he knew it.

"I'm hungry and there's no one around, so let's find a place to live and cook, so we'll eat the powder from the rice we brought today, and make a dish that we haven't eaten today."

Li Jing said.

"Whatever the saint wants to eat, the slave maid will make it for you."

The accompanying cook asked.

"I want to eat fried pho!"

Li Jing looked at the rice field in front of him, and couldn't help but think of a delicacy he often ate in his previous life-pho, so he blurted out.

Pho?

Everyone was confused!

I don't know what pho is, but is it because I went to the river to get it, so it's called pho?

What river does this have to go to to get pho?

"Sage, what is pho?"

Instead of thinking about it here, it's better to ask directly.

Li Jing was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then remembered that the Tang Dynasty had not yet researched pho, which was the food that the people of later dynasties had researched by themselves.

It is only spread among the people, even if it is the princes and nobles of later generations, they may not necessarily know what pho is, how can they expect the Tang people to know what pho is?

"Pho is a dish made from rice, let's find a place to cook first!"

After Li Jing finished speaking, he walked towards the front, and Ximenyang and the others hurriedly followed.

After walking for a while, I finally found an open place, which is simply a natural kitchen, surrounded by beautiful scenery, river, and it is very nice to have a picnic here!

Li Jing asked people to take out the cooking utensils, and he wanted to do it himself and show everyone how to fry rice noodles.

When they heard that Li Jing was going to cook by himself, they were scared.

The saint is the Ninety-Five, how can he do these things that damage his identity, cooking this kind of thing, he should be handed over to the cook to do, this is the cook's job.

If everyone does not do their own work, but interferes in other people's work, it is a reversal of the cart, which will lead to confusion of rules, and serious can also cause turmoil.

The most important thing is that the emperor has to cook himself, so what's the use of having an imperial kitchen?

This is competing with the imperial chef for a job, and he doesn't plan to give the imperial chef a way to live!