What was in this big box turned out to be paper! In fact, paper has already been invented, and Liu Xin has seen paper produced in many different places, but the quality is so poor that it is almost unsuitable for writing, let alone painting. However, the paper in this box is completely different. Whether it is flexible or white, it is many times better than the paper Liu Xin has seen before, and it is even very close to the rice paper of later generations.
Liu Xin was overjoyed. This was really an unexpected gain. He hurriedly said to Jushou: "Gongyou, you immediately arrange for someone to check where the paper in Chen Jie’s study is produced. In addition, arrange for someone to send some of these papers to State Shepherd Mansion, hand it to Madam."
Ju granted a promise and was about to go out, when Liu Xin stopped him again and said, "Gongyou, letting you do this kind of house-copying is really overkill. I think you can leave this errand to Zhang Yun to do it."
Jushou hesitated: "Master, I don't think Zhang Yun is a gentleman."
Liu Xin smiled and said, "Of course I know that he is a villain. It is appropriate to leave the house ransacking to someone like Zhang Yun. If you are not at ease, you can let Fan Jing come to be responsible with him and supervise him by the way. Your main point It still has to be placed on the expansion of Xiangyang City."
Jushou said confidently: "Don't worry, the lord. I have arranged manpower to explore the land and draw patterns. Now all the land outside the city is in the hands of the government, and the expansion is much easier."
Liu Xin nodded with satisfaction, and said: "The paper matter must be hurry up. You have to take care of it yourself. Just talk about how many people are needed. In addition, the mansion of the Chen family is not bad. When the investigation is over, you will arrange manpower. Part. Call Zhang Ji for his medical school. Let Kuai Liang build the orphanage here."
When Jushou took the order to leave, Liu Xin only felt a little irritable. Recently, I have always felt this way. I don't know if it is because of being too busy or the weather is getting warmer.
Zhu has adapted to the life in the prefecture and shepherd's house. She cooks good dishes and makes good needlework. She is also good at helping with children. After half a day's work, she cleaned up a small courtyard in an orderly manner. Liu Xin didn’t use any other maidservants except Qiao'er. Now that Zhu’s family really helped Ma Yun, and the box of paper sent by Ju’s grantor made Ma Yun very happy. She was accustomed to writing on paper. People say that writing with bamboo slips is a kind of suffering. With these papers, and without housework, Ma Yun now has more time to write and draw.
After a busy day, Bian Yu finally returned to the mansion from outside the city. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a beautiful young woman greeted him and shouted timidly, "Second Madam!" In the scene, it was difficult to calm down, and he went back to his room after hesitated twice, without knowing who this woman was.
Zhu was at a loss, and the second wife was approachable outside the city. Why did she put herself on the air when she got home
As soon as the sky fell, Liu Xin rushed out of the city. Jushou said that the expansion of Xiangyang City will begin today. As soon as I left the house, I ran into Guo Jia's mother Lin.
Lin stopped Liu Xin and said, "My lord, it's been a few days since the ladies came here. I eat and drink for free every day, but I have nothing to do. My lord, you should arrange a job for me."
Liu Xin knew that this was a hardworking woman, and he respected her very much, and said, "Sister Guo, since you can’t stay free, I have something for you to do. There are many homeless orphans outside the city, I We are going to set up an orphanage. I would like to ask you to select some capable women from the victims outside the city and help Taishou Kuai to look after them. What do you think?"
Lin was moved and said: "The adults really love the people like their children, and the women will do their best to take care of them."
Liu Xin came to the outside of the city. Although it is not yet time to build the city wall, the work of delimiting the specific area of the city, digging the moat, and burning city bricks can already be carried out. Liu Xin didn't want to point fingers, because he was just a layman in this regard, so he could use his thousands of years of insight to think about it, and he was okay with Canada. When it comes to specific tasks, he can't speak.
Lately, at night, Liu Xin is always very excited, Ma Yun is obviously overwhelmed and refuses to go crazy with him. Last night, he wanted to have sex with Ma Yun, but he was rejected. He didn't sleep well at night, so he got up very early today.
When Jushou arrived outside the city, he found that Liu Xin was already there. He was very surprised because he also got up early! So he asked, "Master, why did you come so early?"
Liu Xin yawned and said, "Can't sleep."
Jushou said movedly: "The lord doesn't have to do everything by himself, and I will try my best."
Liu Xin secretly said, you think I want to do this, but you can't explain that kind of thing, so you have to turn the topic off and ask: "Gongyou, how about the investigation of those papers?"
Jushou replied embarrassedly: "Going back to the lord, his subordinates have already found out some eyebrows. The Chen family has a paper workshop, and these papers are produced there. But the technicians who can produce these papers have disappeared, and the subordinates are decent people. Look around."
Liu Xin thought about it for a moment and said: "Chen Jie is not a good reader. He shouldn't have thought of building a paper workshop. There is a problem with the origin of this paper workshop. If you start from this aspect, check it carefully and you should find out. ."
Jushou said, "Yes, the subordinates will order someone to investigate. Lord, the auspicious time has come, please preside over the groundbreaking ceremony."
Liu Xin was a little sleepy, waved his hand and said, "Mr. Come on, I'll just have a look here."
The expansion project of Xiangyang City, which has been planned for many days, has finally officially started. More than 20,000 yellow turban prisoners and more than 10,000 migrant workers recruited from refugees, a team of nearly 40,000 and 30,000, worked hard together on this land. The scene is very spectacular.
Liu Xin is busy building his new Xiangyang here, but the court has exploded. Dong Zhuo succeeded Lu Zhi to conquer Zhang Jiao, and suffered several defeats. Now the two sides are fighting each other in Guangzong. Huangfusong and Zhu Jun also defeated many times when they suppressed Bocai in Yingchuan. Later, when Huangfu Song saw that Bocai formed a camp on the grass, he designed a fire attack, breaking the yellow turban, and was chasing the room. Unexpectedly, Sun Xia led Nanyang's defeated yellow turban to cast Bocai, taking the chaos and fighting against the generals. Lost, the two sides became a stalemate again.
The court has been arguing endlessly, and many officials have elected Liu Xin to lead the army to conquer the Yellow Turban. Although Emperor Liu Hong was greedy and lustful, he was not stupid. He didn't want Liu Xin to sit up, so he was resolutely not allowed. In fact, before that, Zhang Yun and Xu Huang had both sent letters requesting that troops be sent to Yingchuan, but Liu Xin thought over and over again and decided not to move. Liu Xin was not worried that the emperor was suspicious. He considered that most of his men were recruits. It was a fluke that he was able to win last time. If he sent troops rashly, he would win. If he loses, I am afraid that even the two counties of Nanyang and Nanxiang will win. It is hard to guarantee, and it is irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers. What he is considering now is to consolidate his own territory and have the opportunity to take over the five counties of Jiangxia and Guiyang in order to unify Jingzhou. The most important thing at present is to bury his head and start construction.
In fact, the city of Xiangyang is not peaceful either. The Chen family was originally ranked first for a long time, but in the past two decades, due to the decline of talents, there are no more people in the Chen family in Xiangyang and surrounding counties to hold positions in the government, but the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and only on wealth. The Chen family is still the richest man in Xiangyang, and many real estate and real estate properties in and around Xiangyang are the properties of the Chen family. In the current Chen family, Chen Jie, father and son were beheaded in the street, family wealth was stolen, real estate was sealed, land was seized, other members of the family were exiled, sold as slaves, sold as slaves, and since then withdrawn from Jingzhou. Historical stage.
Cai and Kuai are both well-known and well-established families, and they have not been implicated too much in this incident. The important reason is that they are both supporters of Liu Xin. The only influence is the few women who married into the Chen family from these two families, but they have all been sent back now. People at this time are still very tolerant of women remarrying. They can remarry at any time as long as they want. It's not too big.
As for the Wang family, the situation is a little different. The Wang family has only come to prominence in the past two decades. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the policy of emphasizing agriculture and restraining business has been changed in the past few years, and commerce has been greatly developed. Although Wang's family is ranked among the four big families in Xiangyang, it does not have much foundation and almost has no choice but to rely on the other three families. Take the Wang's shops for example, most of them are rented properties of Chen, Cai, and Kuai. . This time Liu Xin wanted to seize the Chen family's property, and many shops in the Wang family were also implicated and temporarily closed. However, Wang Zhen, the Patriarch of the Wang Family, has not paid attention to this loss, and he can take this opportunity to buy these shops.
The four major families are all related to each other by marriage, and naturally a woman from the Wang family married into the Chen family. Three months ago, one of Wang Zhen's niece married Chen Jie's youngest son. He also didn't expect Liu Xin to let her go home like Kuai and Cai's family. After all, there are people from Kuai and Cai's families who hold important positions under Liu Xin. Wang Zhen only hoped to redeem this niece and return home, but waited and waited. The Chen family's girls were almost sold out, and he didn't wait for his niece.
In Liu Xin’s publicly announced Chen Jie’s crimes, there was a treason, and the rebellion was to punish the nine clans. Wang Zhen is finally a little worried now. Why did Liu Xin let the girls from Cai and Kuai leave behind and leave his niece alone? Is it to seize this clue to prove the relationship between the Wang family and the Chen family? Will his butcher knife be cut on his head soon