Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

Under the canopy, looking at the paper made by Prince Fusu and others, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng breathed quickly and his eyes were burning.

Although the paper made by Prince Fusu and others would cause ink to smudge when written on, this does not mean that the paper made by Prince Fusu and others failed.

This can only be said to be the failure of the first paper made, but the general direction of papermaking is correct.

Prince Fusu and others did create a new writing tool that can be written on it and will not penetrate the ink!

As long as they can continue to improve the papermaking technique on this basis and make paper that will not smudge, then paper will inevitably become popular in the future and completely replace the current bamboo slips and wooden slips.

Think about it, the bamboo slips memorials he needs to review every night are so many that they weigh one stone, and even need to be pulled by a car.

What if paper is used instead?

The same size of text and the same writing spacing, the content that can be written on a piece of paper is equivalent to a bamboo slip now.

But the weight of a piece of paper is only a few hundredths of a bamboo slip now.

If all the bamboo slips he was reviewing could be replaced with paper, then his memorials would not need to be so heavy that they needed to be pulled by a cart, and one person could lift them.

Moreover, although a bamboo slip was not heavy, it was not too light either.

Every night when he reviewed the bamboo slips, it was fine at first, but after one or two hours of reviewing, his arms would naturally start to get tired and sore.

But if he changed to paper, he felt that he would not get tired or sore even if he held it all day. So lightness is the first major advantage of paper! The second major advantage of paper, in his opinion, is that it takes up a small area!

Like a bamboo slip now, it has to occupy a foot of space more or less.

But if the contents of a bamboo slip are all written on a piece of paper, then this piece of paper will only take up a square inch of space at most.

This means that more things can be stored in the same size of space.

The two advantages of lightness and small footprint bring about the third advantage of paper, which is easy to carry and transport! 463

The bamboo slips memorials he needed to review every night were so many that they had to be placed on a wooden cart, and then several people pulled the cart to pull it.

But what if they were all replaced with paper memorials? Do you still need a wooden cart?

No!

Do you still need several people to pull the cart?

No!

This means that the bamboo slips memorials that could only be carried and transported once before can be carried and transported several times after being replaced with paper memorials with the same manpower and material expenditures.

And this brings an increase in the number of contacts between the upper and lower levels!

For example, because bamboo slips are heavy and inconvenient to transport.

Therefore, the central court and local officials can only contact each other once a month through the transported bamboo slips memorials.

But if it is changed to paper memorials that are light, take up little space, and are easy to carry and transport.

Then the central court and local officials, with the same manpower and material expenditures, can contact each other two to three times a month, or even more times!

And another important role brought about by this is that the court's control over the local areas is further strengthened!

For example, if a rebellion occurs in a local area, it is inconvenient to transport bamboo slips.

So when the imperial court receives the memorials from local officials, it is very likely that a month has passed.

After a month, the local rebellion may have taken the opportunity to grow and develop.

By then, even if the imperial court can suppress the rebellion, it will inevitably take more time, energy, manpower, material resources, etc.

But if it is replaced with paper memorials that are more convenient to transport, then when a rebellion occurs in a local area, the news may be delivered to the imperial court in half a month.

Then the imperial court can send troops to suppress and quell the rebellion in time before the local rebellion develops further.

In addition to this, there is a fourth advantage, which is cheap and easy to make!

Like making bamboo slips, not all bamboo can be used to make bamboo slips. It must be bamboo of good size, thickness and straightness to be used as the raw material for making bamboo slips. (afdj)

And after the bamboo is cut down, the bamboo nodes cannot be used, and the bamboo must be finely cut and ground into bamboo slips of uniform size, thickness and smoothness.

It can be said that the production of bamboo slips is very cumbersome.

But the paper on the canopy is not picky, no matter what kind of bamboo you are, and no matter whether you have bamboo nodes.

Cut the bamboo directly and throw it into the bamboo pond to soak.

After soaking, crush it directly, and then boil it until it becomes bamboo pulp.

Finally, pick it up, press water, and dry it, then a piece of paper is made.

In short, after seeing the emergence of paper, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, who had an outstanding strategic vision of the times, almost subconsciously thought of the great uses of paper in all aspects.

Thinking of this, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng also took a deep breath, and then turned his head to look at the left prime minister Wei Zhuang, the right prime minister Wang Wan, and the court judge Li Si behind him and ordered:

"Behind the sky curtain, I will announce to the world that if anyone can improve the papermaking technology that can be written normally without blurring before the sky curtain reveals a better papermaking technology, then no matter who it is, I will also grant him the title of Five Great Officers!"

Although we have to wait a little longer, the sky curtain should continue to show the improved, more convenient and easy-to-use papermaking technology in the future.

But Emperor Qin Ying Zheng no longer has that patience. He cannot control the sky curtain, and he doesn't know when the improved papermaking technology will be revealed by the sky curtain.

He wants to get the improved papermaking technology as soon as possible!

So Emperor Qin Ying Zheng simply took out a title of Five Great Officers like another"self" on the sky curtain, and used it to reward those who can further improve the papermaking technology.

The left prime minister Wei Zhuang, the right prime minister Wang Wan, and the court judge Li Si looked at each other and responded in unison:

""In compliance with your majesty's order!"

They also had no objection to the fact that the First Emperor was going to offer a five-official title as a reward for improving the papermaking technique.

After all, they could more or less think of how useful paper was.

Moreover, the First Emperor said that anyone who could improve the papermaking technique could get a five-official title.

This means that even if their descendants could improve the papermaking technique to be truly usable, they could also get a five-official title! The five-official title, in the Qin Dynasty's twenty-level military merit system, was also a high title.

If it was in Xianyang City, then the other party would also be qualified to attend the court, although the position would be relatively far back. (To read the novel"Bao Shuang", go to Feilu Novel Network!)

But being able to get such a high-level title reward in the end without having to fight on the battlefield, just by improving the papermaking technique, what else could be unsatisfactory.

Thinking of the rough papermaking technique revealed by the sky curtain , The steps and process of papermaking, all the civil and military officials present decided to wait until the end of this curtain.

Either go back and try it yourself to see if you can improve the papermaking technique.

After all, among the civil and military officials present, not everyone can have the high title of five great doctors or above.

Or go back and urge the children in your family to try to see if they can improve the papermaking technique.

After all, among the civil and military officials present, even if they have the high title of five great doctors or above.

But it does not mean that they can let their children also get the high title of five great doctors or above.

As we all know, the higher the title of Qin, the harder it is.

So it is a rare opportunity to get a title without a threshold, so they naturally want to let the children in the family try it.

Anyway, the children in the family are idle anyway, so it is better to find something for them to do, so as to save them from jumping up and down with high energy all day and causing trouble for them.[]

Not only did the civil and military officials want to improve the papermaking technique themselves, but the doctors of the Hundred Schools of Thought also wanted to improve the papermaking technique themselves.

After all, after the improvement, the use of paper that can really replace bamboo slips and wooden tablets is so great that they can also think of one or two.

And the most important thing is that the manufacture of this paper does not seem to be very troublesome.

At least after watching the process of Prince Fusu and others making paper on the sky curtain, their brains told them that they seemed to have learned it.

If they can be the first to improve the papermaking technique, they will not only be able to obtain a title of five great officials granted by the First Emperor, but also use it to slap the face of the Mohist school.

There is no way. Since the Mohist Xiang Liji saw that the other"self" on the sky curtain had connected with the Prince Fusu, he has been a little too arrogant.

However, before, because there were a group of Confucian doctors such as Chunyu Yue, who were more disgusting to other doctors of the Hundred Schools of Thought, they firmly attracted the hatred of other doctors of the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Therefore, other doctors of the Hundred Schools of Thought did not pay too much attention to the arrogant Mohist Xiang Liji.

But now that Chunyu Yue and other Confucianists were dragged out of the palace, the hatred of other Confucianists instantly shifted to Xiang Liji, who had been too arrogant before.

If they could improve the papermaking technique earlier than the Mohists, then in the future, Xiang Liji and others from the Mohists would have no face to continue to brag about their best inventions in front of them.

Xiang Liji from the Mohists glanced at the expressions of other Confucianists and saw what they were thinking. He immediately showed a sneer of disdain on his face. Other Confucianists knew nothing about improvement.

It was completely different to have the brain and the hands.

At least after he watched the papermaking technique displayed by Prince Fusu on the sky, he had already thought of several clear research directions that could be tried for improvement.

The other Confucianists had some ghost ideas in their minds, and at most they would try a few random attempts.

However, in order to prevent other Confucianists from really trying a few random attempts and then really trying out a way to improve papermaking.

Xiang Liji also made up his mind immediately, and waited until the sky curtain ended and went back.

Even if their Mohist disciples did not eat, drink, or rest, they must be ahead of others and take the lead in researching the improvement of papermaking, so as to maintain the reputation of their Mohist disciples as the best inventers of skills!

In addition to the civil and military officials and doctors of the Hundred Schools in the palace, even Chunyu Yue, who had just been beaten fifty times and whose buttocks were beaten bloody, and other Confucian doctors who had not yet fainted, were gritting their teeth and remembering the papermaking process just shown by the sky curtain.

They were ready to wait until the sky curtain ended, even if they had to lie on a wooden cart and be pushed by others, they must try to improve the papermaking technology.

If they could research and improve a better papermaking technology before the sky curtain revealed the improved papermaking technology, then presenting it to the First Emperor might exempt them from the confinement of self-reflection.

Of course, even if they cannot be exempted from the confinement of self-reflection, if they can improve the papermaking technology better and promote it to the whole world.

Then the scholars of the whole world will also benefit from their improved papermaking technology.

In this way, even if they go back on their words, in order to cater to the great unification of the first emperor's ideology and culture, they have to modify the thoughts and words of the predecessors of their own school.

I think the scholars of the world will not criticize them too much for their contribution to improving the papermaking technology.

In this way, they can barely save part of their reputation.

And this point is not only realized by Chunyu Yue and other Confucian doctors, but also by scholars from all over the world.

If they can improve the papermaking technology before the sky curtain shows a better papermaking technology.

Then maybe they can leave their names in history, so that all the scholars who use paper in the world will think of their goodness in the future.

Such a reputation is probably not much worse than that of the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Thinking of this, some scholars with stronger action ability have already started to ask people to cut bamboo and prepare to start trying to make paper.

Even some common people have thought about trying to make paper, after all, papermaking looks similar to making tofu.

If they can make tofu successfully, then maybe they can also make paper successfully.

If they can make paper successfully, maybe they can sell the paper to scholars, and then make some money from it to improve their family's life.

It can be said that at this moment, anyone in the world who has a little vision can see the huge potential of the newly invented papermaking, and they all try to get a piece of the pie..