The news that the royal family divided the world spread all over the court, but there were no waves in the court.

In other words, even if some people want to do something, they don't dare to do anything at all under the suppression of the royal family.

After Wang Ke's edict was issued, a large amount of money was divided among the Taifu and then rewarded to these princes, and at the same time, the children of the princes in Luoyang, Jinling, Huai'an, Gusu and other places began to disperse to all parts of the world.

The original population of the Gong clan was close to one million, except for about 200,000 left, the rest were divided into all parts of the country. As for the land vacated after the departure of these princes, it was returned to the royal family, partly distributed to the remaining princes, and partly distributed to the commoners.

Ordinary people in Daqian have almost 30 to 50 acres of farmland per household, and if they want more land, they need to open up wasteland.

The land is exempt from tax for the first three years, half tax for the next two years, and the normal tax will be collected in the third year.

It's just that the wasteland near the city will basically be reclaimed, and if you want to reclaim the wasteland, you can only go to the countryside.

The population of one million clans was divided into various places, creating a class of 100,000 small landlords. At the same time, there were also many children of the Gong clan who hoped to make contributions to their careers, and asked Wang Ke to go to the four feudal states.

For these brave pioneers, Wang Ke rewarded them, gave them weapons and armor, and distributed the prisoners who were distributed to them as slaves.

Traveling to Lingnan is very dangerous, but it is also highly rewarding. The children of their public family went to Lingnan, and they were the most trusted people by those princes and kings.

After dividing a large number of princes, the expenses of the royal family were reduced in an instant, and with more money, the royal family could do more things.

The population of the Daqian royal family has always been consciously controlled, as a descendant of the lineage, the population of the royal family is too large, the more luck will be consumed, and now the royal family still implements five generations after automatically becoming a prince, but it will not change its surname again.

With more money in his hands, Wang Ke began to support the research of the public losers and the Mohists.

Over the years, with the continuous investment of money and materials, every once in a while, something new will appear, or some equipment will be improved.

For this reason, when Wang Luo was building Luoyang City, he deliberately allocated a piece of land and handed it over to the craftsman for use.

It was on this land that various workshops were established, from which all kinds of weapons and equipment were manufactured.

And all sorts of royal research are here. Just like improved crossbow arrows, improved trebuchets are all here.

The royal family has long felt that it is too cumbersome and inconvenient to use bamboo slips to record writing, and it is also inconvenient to write. A classic with tens of thousands of words needs more than a dozen or even twenty rolls of bamboo slips to record, which is very inconvenient.

Instead of using bamboo slips, using cloth to record text, although it is a lot lighter, but the price of cloth is too high, and it is also not suitable.

Therefore, the royal family was desperate to find an item that was easy to write, easy to preserve, and inexpensive to record the written word.

But research is very expensive, and at the same time, it is also very boring, and usually a study lasts for years or decades.

And many times, these studies fail in the end. But even if it failed, the royal family did not stop researching, but started again. Failure after failure will always lead to something. These accumulations eventually led to technological breakthroughs.

"It's done! It's done! A high-pitched shout sounded, which immediately attracted the attention of many people.

I saw a man with a strange smell rushing in with something like a white cloth.

"The master craftsman, I have succeeded! That's paper! ”

When the master master heard the shout, he came out, and was overjoyed when he saw the paper in the man's hand.

"Cai Yun, did you succeed?" The master craftsman said excitedly.

He knew very well the meaning of paper and understood the importance that the royal family attached to paper. After confirming that the paper could be used for writing, he hurriedly took people to Qianyuan Palace together.

After Wang Ke learned that the master craftsman had come, he immediately thought that something new had been made in the craftsman's supervisor, and he was very happy and immediately summoned everyone to come forward.

Soon the master craftsman came to the hall with a few people, and Wang Ke asked with a smile: "Master craftsman, but have you made any good things?" ”

"Your Majesty, the paper, the paper has been made!" Gong Yi said happily.

"What? Already made of paper? Submit it quickly! Wang Ke said excitedly.

The two waiters hurriedly stepped forward to take the paper and then sent it to Wang Ke.

Wang Ke gently opened the paper, and the roll of paper in front of him was about a foot square, and the color was yellow, in addition to the surface of the paper, there were some unevenness, and there seemed to be some small plant meridians remaining on it, which was not very good-looking.

However, this paper is very thin, ten times thinner than cloth, and more convenient than bamboo slips, Wang Ke forcibly suppressed his excited expression, and said softly: "Take the pen and ink!" ”

The two waiters hurriedly ran to fetch the pen and ink, and then began to study the ink quickly, but in a few moments, the pen and ink were ready.

Wang Ke picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, then lifted the brush and took a deep breath, and slowly put down the pen under the gaze of everyone.

A black handwriting appeared on the paper, the ink was not smudged, it was still very clear, Wang Ke breathed a long sigh of relief, and then wrote a line of words on the paper in one go.

Everyone watched as the brush swiped across the paper, leaving a line of text, and the pale yellow paper had four big characters written on it: 'Da Qianwan Nian'.

After seeing that there was no problem with the four words, Wang Ke slowly put down the brush, looked up at the sky, and muttered: "Ancestor, the paper has been made!" ”

Wang Ke solemnly said to a few people: "The paper is made, and you have a great achievement." Feng Cai Yun is the Marquis of Longting for the food of thousands of households, the public loses frustration and hard work, enters the first level, and adds 100 households of food. Others are rewarded according to the law! ”

"Ministers, thank you, Your Majesty, for thousands of years!" When everyone heard the reward, they were excited and thanked loudly.

Wang Ke continued: "With Cai Yun, the Marquis of Longting, continue to improve papermaking and be responsible for the implementation of papermaking! ”

In the seventh century A.D. (starting with the founding of Zijue), this is destined not to be an ordinary era, the prosperity of the dynasty, the development of civilization has left a brilliant brilliance here, and at the same time, a treasure that opened the development of world civilization appeared in the land of Zhuxia - papermaking!

The invention of papermaking is one of China's great contributions to world civilization and has an indelible impact on the development of human civilization. This is something that all Chinese are proud of. - "The Development of Human Civilization: Paper".

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