I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 144
In fact, in terms of actual status, although Liu Yu is a relative of the emperor, he is also a celebrity who became an official based on the "Five Classics". Like Liu Jian, he is considered both a nobleman and a relative of the emperor, belonging to half and half.

He was right on the side of the emperor, and he was right on the side of the gentry.

But in the end, Liu Yu chose the Han Dynasty.

Even though he has the label of a gentry, Liu Yu has been nurtured by his family since he was a child and inherited his identity as a direct descendant of Guangwu.

Looking at the clansmen of the Han family in the entire Han Dynasty, there are very few clansmen with such roots as him.

In fact, although Liu Yu knew about the analysis that Liu Jian just made, it is really very difficult to promote learning to the world, especially to the people.

The two continued to discuss this topic in depth, and they forgot the time of the conversation, and even forgot the left banquet for dinner.

Obviously, in some respects, the two of them have common arguments.

During the conversation, the two focused on several aspects.

In Liu Yu's view, there are three major difficulties that need to be overcome to broaden the wisdom of the people.

One is people's food.

The basis of learning is to eat enough and wear warm clothes. Only those who have stabilized the life of the current class will be more interested in expanding and taking a step forward.

This is why at the end of the Han Dynasty, most of the people who wanted to go to the upper class were rich and poor with no heirs of Confucian classics!

It's just because the poor family has already met the most basic needs of life, and the existing life supports them to expand their higher survival goals.

The second is the way of transmission.

Not to mention that the current main knowledge is monopolized by wealthy families, even if academics are not monopolized by elite readers, if books are only passed on by hand copying, it will be inefficient and error-prone, and it is impossible to spread knowledge on a large scale. It is an objectively huge problem.

The third is the education system.

Except Luoyang Taixue has a set of precise education process, and Taixue’s Five Classics and Fourteen Ph. "Lu" was founded by local famous scholars in order to promote their academic reputation and expand the prestige of the sect in addition to their academic studies.

Because of this purpose as a premise, celebrities are more strict in the selection of private school students, including all aspects of background and economic strength are within the scope of inspection, which naturally limits the teaching population of local private schools.

These three major difficulties separate those who are qualified to study and study into three, six, and nine grades.

For Liu Jian and Liu Yu right now, they cannot solve the problems of the education system and changing the course of people's livelihood.

Because this requires a process of political and practical operations, and no accidents, these two points cannot be improved under the current situation where the forces of all parties are temporarily relatively balanced. Only under the premise of post-Dazhi, can it be resolved.

After the analysis of the two brothers Liu Yu and Liu Jian, they found that according to their current energy and status, they may only be able to try to solve the problem of book dissemination methods.

But how to solve it?
Liu Jian proposed a key development to Liu Yu.

That's paper!

Liu Jian knew in his heart that whether it was imperial examinations, printing, or the progressive inheritance of the production revolution, it was inseparable from the carrier of paper.

It has been [-] years since Caihou paper came out, because it is too brittle, and it is prone to erosion due to excessive ink invasion, so it is not suitable for use.

However, Liu Yu is well-informed. He heard that in the past three or four years, a man named Zuo Bo came out of Donglai County, Qingzhou, who used a considerable proportion of mulberry bark to make a paper that was much stronger than Caihou paper of paper.

However, because the raw materials of this kind of Zuobo paper are very particular, it needs a large amount of mulberry bark as raw material, and the cost is quite expensive. Looking at the Han Dynasty, it also has geographical limitations.

The only states and counties that can plant a large number of mulberry trees for the Zuobo paper raw material base are Qingzhou and Yizhou, the land of silkworms.

In addition, the cost is too high.

However, in the initial stage of many emerging industries, the cost is generally too high. Only when the process develops to a certain maturity, will the cost be gradually reduced due to the saving of production capacity and the expansion of raw materials. This is impossible.

A new technology that has just come out, you can't immediately make it the price of cabbage.

The appearance of Zuo Bo paper in recent years also shows that Qingzhou's paper industry has reached a stage where it can be transformed.

This moment is very critical.

If the local production capacity is delayed due to the delay of the war, it is very likely that the newly emerging paper industry will be interrupted.As for when it will get back on track, it depends on the right time, place and people.

Liu Jian said with emotion: "If the sky has eyes and I have a chance in the future, I will definitely try my best to promote the paper industry, so that this industry will not be interrupted by other things."

Liu Yu didn't speak, he just frowned, as if he was thinking about something.

When I was young, I suddenly heard Liu Yu speak slowly: "Today I talked with Deran for half a day, and I benefited a lot. It really made my brother feel a lot."

"Brother, you don't have to be so polite. Jian didn't do anything, but just casually said some side-by-side gossip. If there are unpleasant words, please don't blame me, brother."

Liu Yu shook his head and said, "No! There are no unpleasant words, and they really benefited me a lot."

But Liu Yu stood up slowly and bowed to Liu Jian.

Liu Jian was shocked when he saw this, and he hurriedly got up to return the gift.

Liu Yu said with emotion: "Over the years of our dynasty, the place has gradually become chaotic, the people's livelihood has declined, the people of Li have suffered, the Xianbei have invaded the territory in the north, and the Qiang people have repeatedly rebelled in the west. There is endless internal and external restlessness. It can be described as a time of internal and external difficulties."

"Aiming at my court's troubles, my brother had a lot of ideas and thought hard about how to break the situation, but after more than ten years, I have been studying the court's power and tactics. When the country is in trouble, the local thieves will find ways to replace it Your Majesty suppresses chaos and suppresses bandits, and if there is a famine in the area, please open a storehouse to provide food to prevent plagues, it can be said that it is a headache to heal the head, and a foot to heal the foot."

"It wasn't until today, thanks to the words of my virtuous brother, that I suddenly realized where my brother's passion for helping the Han should go."

"A small piece of paper, how many blessings and benefits can be carried in it, how many current political problems can be solved along the way, and how many difficult problems will be solved for the big man... I have just discussed with my virtuous brother in detail today, and I just understand ah."

"Whether it is the rubbing method mentioned by the talented brother, or the establishment of a school in the world, the load is the most important thing, and the paper is really the key! But to solve the problem of paper, it is not just political tricks or It can be solved by studying the world."

Speaking of this, Liu Yu clapped his hands and said: "If there is a chance in the future, I will play the Son of Heaven and go to Qingzhou in person!"

Liu Jian was surprised when he heard the words: "What is brother Bo'an doing in Qingzhou?"

"I just heard what my virtuous brother said, since this small piece of paper is related to my fate in the world, then I will try my best to find a solution! Brother, I didn't think of this before, let it go, Now that I think about it, I should take it as my own responsibility. If I don’t have the opportunity tomorrow, I will let it go. If I have the opportunity to take charge of Qingzhou, I will do my best to develop the paper industry and all the industries that benefit the people’s livelihood of the big man!”

Looking at Liu Yu's firm face, Liu Jian thought to himself—is this the state that a person who has found his life goal should be in the legend?

In fact, think about it, it is true.

If Liu Yu really had the opportunity to go to Qingzhou to revitalize important fields such as mulberry, paper, printing, and sea salt, it would be much better than going to Youzhou in history and being squeezed back and forth by Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan.

Among the clansmen of the Han family at the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yu was a very capable person. He had outstanding achievements in his life and was quite famous. During his governance of Youzhou, he was able to greatly increase the salt of Youzhou, a poor state. The income from iron ore has enabled more than a million Wanqing and Xu refugees to take root in Youzhou, which shows that this person has a very good ability to engage in economics.

It's just that his ability to use soldiers is really weak. He gathered more than [-] people and was defeated by Gongsun Zan's hundreds of people.

As for the right and wrong between Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan, Liu Jian doesn't want to overestimate it. The two people's ruling ideas conflict, and at the same time they touch each other's core interests.

As for the methods used by foreign races, Liu Yu is Huairou, Gongsun Zan is iron-blooded... There is no right or wrong in this regard, each has its own style of play.

People like Liu Yu are really not suitable to go to the border county of Youzhou. If a place like Qingzhou, which has advantages in papermaking and unlimited potential, can be under his jurisdiction, the future results may be unimaginable.

In particular, Liu Yu has seen the current situation clearly, and he understands why he is in this world and what he should do.

"Brother Bo'an, if he has this ambition, I will help him!" Liu Jian said.

After half a day's in-depth conversation, Liu Jian and Liu Yu actually had a feeling of sympathy for each other without knowing it.

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In order to verify what the two talked about today, Liu Jian asked Liu Yu to stay in Nangong temporarily, and then sent someone to buy Caihou paper and Zuobo paper in Anping, and study with Liu Yu.

The reason for the development of the paper industry is that the ultimate goal is nothing more than the invention of engraving printing, so they intend to try the characteristics of the existing paper in this regard.

The principle of plate-adjusting printing is simple. In short, it is to reversely engrave the characters to be printed on a wooden board. When engraving, the gestures of each character are highlighted and can be copied. After that, it is once and for all.

After the content of the article is typed, it is printed on paper page by page with engraving. If you want to copy thousands of pages or tens of thousands of pages of a content, you only need assembly line work, and it can be done in a short time.

However, in the current situation, engraving and printing should not come out, and it is easy to become the target of public criticism and be attacked collectively by officials and prominent families.

Only when the world is in turmoil, students from all over the world are displaced, academic chapters in various counties have been destroyed in large numbers due to the war, overseas scholars are struggling to study safely, and the elite schools can no longer control the situation of academic collapse. Take it out in one fell swoop to conform to the harmony of time and people.

But it just so happens that there is no suitable paper for printing on the left and right, so it doesn't make sense to take out woodblock printing now.

Liu Jian looked for a carpenter, and first asked someone to simply carve a few engraved wooden characters as the prototype of the engraving according to his requirements, and then experimented with Liu Yu.

They used a small brush to stain the engraved characters with ink, covered the Cai Hou paper, and then gently swept the back with a brush that was not stained with ink.

Later, when the paper was lifted off, it was found that although the paper was soaked with Caihou paper, the ink showed signs of spreading to the surroundings, and when the paper was accidentally lifted away from the engraving block, it was broken because the paper was too hard.

It cannot be said that it is completely unacceptable, but at least [-]% of it is unqualified. Even if it is printed with care, such paper is not conducive to preservation at all.

Afterwards, Liu Yu and Liu Jian experimented with Zuo Bo paper, which had only just come out in recent years.

It has to be said that the paper added with mulberry bark fiber is much stronger than Caihou paper in terms of anti-infection and flexibility.

But the effect is still not good.

Especially for some fonts, due to uneven ink penetration and stress, the effect of engraved and printed characters is not clear, because the ink still overflows, which causes the font to deform.

Liu Jian looked at Liu Yu and said, "Brother Bo'an, did you see that? The paper can be used, but if you want to put it into printing, you have to strengthen the paper manufacturing process, and you have to urge the papermakers in Qingzhou to continue Research, continuous improvement of materials is impossible!"

Liu Yu nodded thoughtfully: "Good!"

At this moment, Liu Yu has fully understood what he is going to do.

　after dinner
　　
　
(End of this chapter)