Han Dao world

Chapter 935
Sun Rui and Jushou came to Yinfang, Jizhou.

After receiving the news, Zhen Mi didn't dare to be negligent, and went out to greet her personally, and led the scholars Sun Rui and Ju Shou to visit the Yinfang, answering all questions.

After hearing the news, Bei Zhan also rushed over, and graciously introduced the situation in the workshop to Shi Sun Rui and Ju Shou, and specially took out the textbooks he compiled to ask them for advice.

Looking at the busy craftsmen, smelling the fragrance of ink, watching each piece of paper slipping through the hands of the craftsmen, printed with clear text, and then cut, bound and turned into a book in the hands of the craftsmen, Shi Sun The two of Rui were dumbfounded.

This is the first time for them to witness the printing process of Yinfang.

It turns out that the book was printed in this way, which is much more convenient than copying.

Could it be that books are so cheap that even ordinary people can afford them?

"Books are so cheap, can Yinfang still make money?" Shi Sun Rui couldn't help asking.

Zhen Mi pursed her lips and smiled. "These books are not meant to make money, but to keep their money. The money depends on the hardcover collections of anthology and poetry. Scholars have money, and they don't mind spending a lot of money to print a collection of works that can be hidden in famous mountains and passed on to future generations. "

"Since you don't make money, why are you printing so many?" Shi Sunrui pointed at the piles of new books.

"Although we don't make money, the common people need it." Zhen Mi picked up a book casually, opened a page, and handed it to Shi Sun Rui. "Master Sun Gong, please look at this. This is an excerpt from Anping Cui Zizhen's "Monthly Order of the Four People". People can use it to improve their own products and increase sales, and ordinary people can also make some sauce for themselves. In short, as long as they can use some, the money for buying books will be earned back.”

Sun Rui was very surprised. "So this is Cui's method of making sauce. It's the first time I've heard of it. Where did you find the manuscript?"

"It was passed on by a child of the Cui family." Zhen Mi said: "The Cui family in Anping had a deep relationship with Yuan Shao, and the loss was not small. The children of the clan took out the classics and treasures collected at home and sold them, and some of them were sold. I bought it."

"That's right." Shi Sun Rui frowned.

He and Cui Lie were colleagues in the past, and they had a pretty good relationship. They tasted Cui's privately made sauce and never forgot it.Now that I heard that Cui's children lived by selling their property, they naturally wanted to help.

Seeing this, Zhen Mi immediately guessed the friendship between Shi Sunrui and Cui Shi, and said with a smile: "Does Shi Sunrui know Cui Zhouping? He is the second son of Taiwei Cui, and now works in Chang'an Agricultural School. He has improved The sauce made by Cui’s family is now the top-grade sauce. It just happened that we just bought some in the workshop, and I will ask Mr. Sun to taste it later.”

Shi Sun Ruizheng had this intention and immediately agreed.

Jushou saw it in his eyes and couldn't help but secretly marveled.

He knew that Shi Sun Rui only wanted to come to Yinfang to have a look, and he had no plan to have dinner at Yinfang.But Zhen Mi was very clever, and with a few words, Shi Sun Rui's greed was aroused, and he happily stayed for dinner.

Shi Sunrui is going to be a captain in the future, I don't know how many people want to get close to Shi Sunrui but they can't get it, but Zhen Mi can do it easily.

Just like she did with Ma Jun back then.

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After visiting Yinfang, Mr. Sun Rui had a working meal.

Zhen Mi didn't make special preparations, but Shi Sun Rui ate very satisfied.When he learned that most of the meals of the craftsmen and technicians in the workshop were like this, he was even more appreciative, happier than eating delicacies from mountains and seas.

During the dinner, the atmosphere was relaxed, Shi Sun Rui casually asked Zhen Mi's opinion on the current situation.

Zhen Mi is very modest, and bluntly said that she is in Yinfang every day, only knows the trivial details in front of her, and dare not express her opinion on the overall situation.

Under Shi Sunrui's repeated request, Zhen Mi thought for a moment, and said, "Unless there are no accidents, it will be the general trend to expand borders. The exile of people in Ye City seems to be punishment, but it is actually an opportunity."

“How come you see?”

"Land is limited, even if land is reclaimed, it cannot keep up with the increase in household registration. Once the world is peaceful, within thirty years, the problem of more people and less land will emerge again. Even if the agricultural school can increase the yield per mu and delay the conflict between people and land , after all, it cannot cure the root cause.”

"But the price of expanding the border is very high. When Xiaowu opened up the frontier and expanded the border, the world almost collapsed."

"Of course the cost of expanding the border is high, but we can't stop doing it just because the cost is high." Zhen Mi said with a smile: "Perhaps we should consider now how to expand the border to minimize the cost."

"Is there a way?"

"There should be." Zhen Mi shrugged. "For example, exiling criminals overseas, or expelling the barbarians as the vanguard, are all good ways. It is said that the land of the barbarians is bitter and cold, but during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, didn't a large number of people go out of the fortress? Before the court, they blindly defended it, thinking that they could spend money Silk is exchanged for peace, and now it seems that it may be more appropriate to attack and resist the enemy outside the Great Wall."

Shi Sun Rui frowned slightly, but said nothing.

A few years ago, it was impossible for him to agree with such an opinion.But to this day, he feels that such an opinion has its own reasons.

This is what the Son of Heaven did. Facts have also proved that appeasing the barbarians blindly cannot bring peace. Conquering them by force, forcing them outside the Great Wall, compressing their living space, and then dividing and conquering may be the right way.

The more you are afraid of danger, the easier it is to approach danger.

Jushou originally resisted the emperor's plan to exile the people in Yecheng, and felt that the punishment was too severe.But after hearing Zhen Mi's suggestion, he felt that this was actually a good choice.

Exile overseas may seem harsh, but in fact, with the courage and ability of Jizhou people, as long as they have certain resources, it is more than enough to deal with a few barbarians.

Besides, overseas is not necessarily far away. For example, Sanhan other than Liaodong and Lelang is overseas. It seems very far away, but in fact, businessmen have long been traveling by boat.I heard from the businessmen that there is a lot of land there, and it is certainly not a problem to feed these tens of thousands of people.

Another advantage of overseas is that they are not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. If you want to be king, you can be king, if you want to be hegemony, you can be hegemony, and you can just pay tribute to the big man.

This idea should be spread to the city as soon as possible, let Tian Feng tell those people, let them make a choice early.

"Has Fangzhu seen any manuscripts related to Danggu recently?" Shi Sun Rui asked suddenly.

"Dang Gu?" Zhen Mi was taken aback. "I didn't see it."

But Ben Zhan said: "I heard some news that Lantai seems to be collecting materials related to the party members, including family biographies, inscriptions, and rank affairs, all of which are being cleaned up. Some days ago, some people went to Qinghe to copy stories Sikong Fangzhi's inscription."

"Lantai is presiding over this matter?"

"It should be, but the person in charge is not Cai Lingshi, it seems to be a Bohai scholar named Yuan Gui."

"Yuan Gui?" Shi Sun Rui was taken aback. "When did he come?"

"It's been a while." Bi Zhan thought about it carefully. "It seems to be recommended by Yuan Shu."

"Yuan Shu?" Shi Sun Rui and Ju Shou looked at each other in disbelief.

They all knew who Yuan Gui was, but they didn't expect that Yuan Shu would recommend Yuan Gui to be an official, and the emperor even asked Yuan Gui to preside over the compilation of "Biography of the Danggu".

Why does this sound so weird?
Shi Sunrui felt that he wanted to meet Cai Yan and Yuan Gui.

(End of this chapter)