Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

【After briefly mentioning the future of the great unification of thought and culture, Prince Fusu turned his attention back to the current group of students in the Education Department.】

【In the classroom, a group of students were holding brushes and writing crookedly on the bamboo slips in front of them.】

【Every now and then, after making a mistake in writing, you would need to use a knife to scrape off the wrong word on the bamboo slips, and then write it again.】

【With a snap, a student accidentally cut the entire bamboo slip in half while scraping off the wrong words on it.】

【The student was immediately annoyed, and then he looked in front of him and saw that there were no more bamboo slips to use, so he had no choice but to put down the knife and the broken bamboo slips.】

【Then the student ran to another student he knew well, sat next to him, and watched him write silently.】

【Seeing this scene, Crown Prince Fusu also felt a little strange, and looked at Zhang Cang beside him and asked:"Why is this?"】

【Zhang Cang immediately explained:"Each student has a limited number of bamboo slips available every day."】

【"Once you have finished writing, or if the pen is cut so that you can't continue writing, you can only put it down temporarily and watch other students write."】

【"Watch and memorize at the same time, and then continue writing and practicing after the new bamboo slips are distributed tomorrow."】

【Hearing Zhang Cang's words, Crown Prince Fusu frowned, becoming even more puzzled:"The number of bamboo slips available to students every day is limited?"】

【As the crown prince, he naturally had no restrictions on the number of bamboo slips and wooden tablets he used in his daily life.】

【Therefore, he had not expected that things like bamboo slips and wooden tablets, which were needed for daily official writing, would actually have a quantity limit.】

【Zhang Cang looked at Prince Fusu's expression and understood why he was confused. He sighed and explained further:"When beginners first start learning to write, they are more likely to make mistakes."】

【"Therefore, it requires a lot of repeated writing practice, which requires a lot of bamboo slips to support"】

【"However, the production of bamboo slips is not easy, and the number of bamboo slips required for students to practice writing is also large."】

【"Therefore, when the number of bamboo slips cannot fully meet the daily needs of students, we can only supply bamboo slips to students in limited quantities every day."】

【After listening to Zhang Cang's explanation, Prince Fusu also began to recall and think about the current writing tools.】

【There are three main writing tools used in this era, namely silk, bamboo slips, and wooden tablets.】

【Silk is light and easy to carry, but it is very expensive.】

【After all, silk itself is a kind of silk, and generally only the rich and powerful can use it as a writing tool.】

【Even the nobles would only use silk to write solemnly on certain important occasions.】

【In most cases, the daily writing tools of the nobles were also bamboo slips and wooden tablets.】

【Those who are truly capable and have the conditions to use silk as their daily writing tool】

【Probably only the princes and princes like Qin King Ying Zheng and Prince Fusu, as well as a small group of high-ranking nobles and ministers who were just below the princes and princes.】

【However, in reality, even if King Ying Zheng of Qin and Prince Fusu had the ability and conditions to use silk as their daily writing tool,】

【However, the writing tools used by Qin Wang Yingzheng and Crown Prince Fusu in their daily lives were mostly bamboo slips and wooden tablets.】

【Although the Qin State could afford it, the cost of supplying Qin King Ying Zheng and Crown Prince Fusu with silk as daily writing tools was】

【But the cost was so high that even King Qin Ying Zheng would twitch his lips and feel distressed when he saw the number.】

【In addition, the Qin State had not yet conquered the six kingdoms and unified the world, so there were many places where money needed to be spent, both internally and externally.】

【Therefore, King Qin Ying Zheng would not spend money on luxury.】

【For Qin King Ying Zheng, it would be better to use the money to attack the six kingdoms instead of spending it on luxury.】

【At least luxury and enjoyment may not necessarily make him happy, but if he conquers the six countries, then he will definitely be very happy.】

【Therefore, when silk was precious and could not be used in daily life, bamboo slips and wooden tablets became the two most commonly used writing tools by everyone from princes and crown princes to civil and military officials and ordinary scholars.】

【But even the cheaper bamboo slips and wooden tablets are not easy to make.】

【For example, bamboo slips】

【If you want to make a bamboo slip into a finished book, you need to go through six steps:】

【The first step is to select materials. According to the quality of bamboo and the age of bamboo, choose the right bamboo to cut down, then transport it to a workshop and remove the bamboo nodes.】

【Step 2: Slice the bamboo tube after removing the bamboo nodes into bamboo slices of equal length. The upper and lower parts of the bamboo slices must be processed and trimmed. There must be no bamboo sticks or bamboo strips, otherwise they will prick your fingers.】

【Then the rough bamboo pieces are smoothed to prepare for the following process.】

【The third step: killing the green, there is a certain amount of water in the bamboo, if it is not removed, after air drying, the bamboo strips are easy to deform】

【In addition, insects and moths are not conducive to the preservation of bamboo slips, so the newly made bamboo slips should be roasted over fire to evaporate the moisture in the bamboo slips.】

【During the roasting process, the surface of the bamboo will sweat, so this process is called"killing the green"."】

【In addition, after the bamboo slips are finished, they should be immersed in glue such as tung oil to prevent corrosion or deformation of the bamboo slips in the future.】

【After this step is completed, a bamboo slip that can be used for writing is ready.】

【Step 4: Writing. After the bamboo slips are officially made, you can write on them.】

【Step 5: Drill holes in both the upper and lower ends of the written bamboo slips. The holes at both ends should be parallel in a straight line. This will make it look beautiful and also show that it is finely crafted.】

【Step 6: Weaving: Use hemp or silk ropes to weave the bamboo pieces with words in a certain order through the bamboo holes to form a book.】

【The last volume of the book is officially completed】

【The production process of wooden slips is similar to that of bamboo slips.】

【However, the raw materials of wooden slips are more difficult to obtain than those of bamboo slips, and the production process is more complicated.】

【The raw material of bamboo slips is bamboo, which is planted, grown, and finally matured into a material that can be used to make bamboo slips.】

【The time required may be as short as one or two years or as long as two or three years.】

【The raw material of wooden slips is trees, which are planted, grown, and finally matured into timber for making wooden slips.】

【The time required would be ten, eight, or even dozens of years of growth, and it would not be enough to be made into wooden tablets.】

【Moreover, the writing surface made of wooden slips is wider than that of bamboo slips. 】 (To read the novels of Bao Shuang, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

【In today's era, it is almost impossible to cut a cross section of a tree trunk with a thickness of about one fen (0.33 cm) or half a fen (0.165 cm) by direct cross-section.】

【So more often, they cut off a one or two inch (3.33 cm to 6.66 cm) thick cross-section of the tree trunk, and then continue to grind it down to a thickness of only one fen or half a fen, and finally make a usable wooden tablet.】

【Therefore, compared with wooden slips, bamboo slips are more commonly used in daily writing.】

【Moreover, whether it is bamboo slips or wooden tablets, in a sense, they are all disposable, or consumable items that can be simply modified two or three times at most and cannot be recycled.】

【This also led to the fact that as more people became literate, the demand for bamboo slips and wooden tablets would increase, and bamboo slips and wooden tablets would become more scarce.】

【Therefore, in order not to waste the precious bamboo slips and wooden tablets, no matter what the content is, people usually think about the draft in their minds before writing.】

【After making sure everything is safe, he would write it down on the bamboo slips.】

【But this is a bit too difficult for beginners who are just starting to learn to write.】

【Therefore, it is inevitable that beginners will make mistakes in writing, resulting in waste of bamboo slips and wooden tablets.】

【Also, due to the complexity of making bamboo slips and wooden tablets, there is no choice but to limit the supply of bamboo slips and wooden tablets to beginners.】

【However, Zhang Cang felt that limiting the supply of bamboo slips and wooden tablets to students was not entirely a bad thing.】

【At least through this limited supply method, students can treasure the bamboo slips and wooden tablets given to them more, and cultivate the good habit of being cautious before they start writing.】

【Of course, Prince Fusu also thought this habit of writing was good.】

【However, although the writing habit is good, this restriction on the supply of bamboo slips and wooden tablets to students will undoubtedly hinder and slow down the students' learning progress.】

【For example, if a student needs to practice ten bamboo slips before he can master the writing of characters】[]

【If the supply of bamboo slips is limited and students only have one bamboo slip a day to practice with, it will take at least ten days for the student to master the writing of characters.】

【However, if there is no restriction on the supply of bamboo slips and wooden tablets to the student, and if ten, twenty, or even one hundred bamboo slips are provided to the student for writing practice every day,】

【Then the student will spend about one to two days to master the writing of characters, and then he will have more time to learn more knowledge.】

【Finally, the time required for the student to complete his studies and become a teacher will be greatly shortened.】

【Similarly, the number of students that the Education Department can train and teach will also increase greatly.】

【Therefore, if he wanted to train more students as soon as possible for him and the Qin State to employ,】

【Then how to reduce the production cost of writing tools such as bamboo slips and wooden slips, and how to increase the output of writing tools such as bamboo slips and wooden slips, has become an urgent problem to be solved. 】

Looking at Prince Fusu on the sky, he lowered his head and pondered the question of"how to reduce the production cost of writing tools such as bamboo slips and wooden slips, and how to increase the output of writing tools such as bamboo slips and wooden slips".

All the scholars from all over the world, regardless of which school they were from, held their breath.

Even Chunyu Yue and other Confucian doctors who had been dragged out of the palace and had just been beaten fifty times by the palace guards, and who had not yet fainted from the pain, took the initiative to bite something at this moment. They were afraid that the painful wail they made accidentally would interrupt the thinking of Prince Fusu on the sky.

Because the problem that Prince Fusu is thinking about now is also a problem that all their schools and scholars will face.

If Prince Fusu can really think of a way to reduce the production cost of writing tools such as bamboo slips and wooden slips, and increase the output of writing tools such as bamboo slips and wooden slips.

Then all the schools of thought and scholars in the world will benefit from Prince Fusu's move!

Because the schools of thought in the world can write their own theories on more bamboo slips and wooden tablets, and spread their own theories and ideas more widely.

And the scholars in the world can also use���With lower learning costs than before, you can learn and master more knowledge in a shorter learning time.

At the same time, the common people who originally wanted to learn to read and write, but could not enter the ranks of reading and writing due to the high learning costs.

Maybe they can also enter the ranks of reading and writing because of the greatly reduced learning costs, and become a scholar who knows how to read and write!

It can even be said without hesitation that the world's literature and morality will flourish because of this, and the progress of the whole world will be greatly advanced by several steps!

Therefore, all the schools of thought and scholars in the world have high hopes for Prince Fusu at this moment, silently praying that Prince Fusu, who has always been smart beyond their imagination, can really think of a solution to these two problems.

After all, if it were someone else, they might not be able to think of a solution to these two problems.

However, if it is Prince Fusu, who has always been able to draw inferences from one instance, draw inferences from one instance, is naturally smart, and has invented tools such as plows and curved plows that are convenient and beneficial to the people, maybe he can really think of a solution to these two problems!.

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