Li Chengqian woke up with panda eyes the next day, feeling a bit miserable.
Seeing that he was so haggard, the princess asked him what was wrong with concern. Li Chengqian shook his head, said he was fine, and went to check on his sleeping son. The emperor's grandson, Li Xiang, is about to turn two years old, and he has always been smart and cute. Li Chengqian sat down by the bed and looked at it for a while before going to the morning court.
After the early dynasty ended, Li Chengqian discussed with Fang Yizhi and others about finding Sun Simiao's whereabouts.
At the beginning of His Majesty Li Er's accession to the throne, Sun Simiao was invited to Chang'an. At that time, Sun Simiao was over seventy years old, but he looked very healthy and healthy.
At that time, His Majesty Li Er invited Sun Simiao to work in the Imperial Hospital, but Sun Simiao did not agree, expressing that he would rather travel around to treat the common people. For a period of time, many medical classics in the imperial court needed to be sorted out, and Sun Simiao was invited to come here again, and brought some medical books edited by himself.
Li Chengqian still had some confidence in this old miracle doctor. He didn't mention Li Yuanying's words to others, he only said that he wanted to find Sun Simiao, Fang Yizhi and others didn't ask any more questions, they all followed orders and left.
Fang Yizhi and the others are all the legitimate sons of the family, and they have a lot of manpower and material resources to use. Sun Simiao is famous, and there are traces of where he has been. It is not too difficult to find it.
Since he told Li Chengqian what His Majesty Li Er said, Li Yuanying took some small toys to play with his nephew and grandson from time to time, and asked Li Chengqian if he had found any trace of the miracle doctor.
Li Chengqian is also waiting.
These days the news spread too slowly, even if Fang Yi ran out and found Sun Simiao outside, it would take some effort to bring the person or the news back.
With no news of the old miracle doctor, Li Yuanying had no choice but to fiddle with his own affairs.
Last year, he asked Dai Ting to buy him a workshop for paper making. Due to the shortage of materials in winter, although the workshop was bought, it has not produced half a sheet of paper.
After the spring, the vegetation was luxuriant and the papermaking materials were easy to collect. Dong Xiaoyi reported to Li Yuanying that the workshop could start papermaking, and whether to formally start paper production according to the original process.
When Li Yuanying heard this, he became interested, sent Dong Xiaoyi away and wandered off to look for a martial artist.
Now Li Yuanying regards Wu Cairen as a librarian. If there is any book he wants to find, he will go to Wu Cairen first.
Wu Cairen listened to Li Yuanying's question about papermaking, thought for a while, shook his head and said, "There are very few people who have a special account of this." Most of the methods of papermaking are passed on by word of mouth. Record the method of papermaking.
Seeing that Li Yuanying was really curious, Wu Cairen mentioned to Li Yuanying something she knew: paper has hemp paper, and hemp, ramie, and jute have been used as materials since the Han Dynasty. Because hemp has to be used to make clothes, hemp paper is expensive. It was not cheap either; later on paper was made from mulberry bark and rattan, called leather paper and rattan paper; I heard that bamboo can be used to make paper in the south of the Yangtze River, called bamboo paper, and the quality is very good.
If you want to improve the method of papermaking, you can start with the raw materials and see which raw materials are cheap and easy to use.
Wu Cairen spoke clearly and logically, Li Yuanying nodded when he heard it, turned his head and went out of the palace to the workshop, and said such and such and such and such to the paper maker in a similar manner.
Li Yuanying's biggest advantage is that he is not short of money, so he asked Dong Xiaoyi to show a golden ingot on the spot, and said quite generously: "Whoever can come up with a good way to reduce the cost, this will be his!"
Then he emphasized that the quality is almost okay if the cost is low. The paper is too soft and can be used to wipe buttocks, and the paper is too rough to pack food.
In short, it doesn't matter what the finished product is, just find out what suits you first!
If you can't use one kind alone, then use a variety of materials mixed!
It doesn't matter if there is any output in the short term, he only needs the latest and best papermaking method with the lowest cost!
What he wants is not paper, but to lower the price of paper!
In the past, although paper makers were also paid for their wages, they had never seen such a large ingot of gold ingots—in fact, there were no other places. It was Li Yuanying who encouraged his guards to go to Gaochang and asked someone to cast it according to the picture he drew. The foot is heavy, like a small golden mountain, it is very attractive to look at!
Throughout the ages, there are not many people who can resist the temptation of gold. Hearing Li Yuanying's golden promise, the craftsmen in the whole workshop became excited and expressed that they would try their best to explore new papermaking methods.
Li Yuanying liked this atmosphere very much, imitating His Majesty Li Er's usual way of speaking, he encouraged the craftsmen with a few words before leaving.
It was mid-February when Li Yuanying finished his work on improving the papermaking method.
After spring, the weather became more and more humid, and His Majesty Li Er's old injury was unbearably painful. The imperial physician suggested that His Majesty Li Er go to Lishan Tangquan to recuperate for a few days.
His Majesty Li Er was busy receiving Tuyuhun's envoys during this time, so he put aside the imperial physician's proposal for the time being.
This time the Tuyuhun envoys came to welcome the relatives. His Majesty Li Er conferred the title of Princess Honghua to a daughter of the clan and gave it to King Nuohebo of Tuyuhun. The Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple have been busy with this matter for the past few days.
Yesterday, His Majesty Li Er went out of the city gate to marry Princess Honghua, and asked General Zuo Xiaowei and Wang Daoming of Huaiyang to escort Princess Honghua to Tuyuhun.
Tuyuhun is adjacent to Tubo and occupies a large grassland. It is a good place to raise horses. During the Sui Dynasty, it was the land for horses in the Central Plains. Emperor Sui Yang always wanted to swallow this place into the territory of the Great Sui Dynasty, and once beat it to the point of extinction. country.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the whole country was in turmoil, and Tuyuhun regained its vitality again. The Tuyuhun people still roamed around Qinghai Lake to domesticate and raise horses.
His Majesty Li Er promised to marry Nuohebo, the king of Tuyuhun, one for Tuyuhun's horse, and the other for helping the weak and weakening the strong, and dividing Tubo.
Li Yuanying didn't know much about the affairs of the court, he only knew that His Majesty Li Er was very busy and had no time to pay attention to them, so of course he took the opportunity to do something.
As a result, he was so busy that he left out his little friend. This day Gao Yang came to block their door aggressively early in the morning, asking him not to go anywhere for the whole day, but to play with them.
Li Yuanying was kind to this, skipped class openly, and took Gao Yang and the others out of the palace to play.
The four little girls were all very interested in the situation in the library, so Li Yuanying took them for a stroll to the West Market to have a look.
Half a month after the opening of the library, there are still many people waiting outside every day, but it is much more orderly than the opening day.
The red mandarin jackets that originally belonged to the students of the Imperial College are now worn by a group of poor students. They couldn't afford to read books at first, and now there is a place where they can browse the sea of books for free, and they absolutely don't allow anyone to destroy this treasured place.
Li Yuanying revealed his identity, and the volunteers who were supposed to maintain order eagerly led them in.
The people inside were all looking for books and reading quietly, even Gao Yang, who was the most eccentric, unconsciously slowed down his steps.
For these humble children who come here early every day to wait for the library to open, any book is a priceless treasure, and they eagerly absorb the scriptures they need.
Coincidentally, Wei Shu happened to be in the library too.
The two sides joined forces smoothly, and the four little lolitas became five little lolitas.
Li Yuanying took five little lolis around in various areas, and found that the Confucian classics were the most frequently flipped, and other classics seemed to be rarely flipped, but his "Fables of Hanzi" was quite popular. It was almost broken, and I don't know if it was because he was the owner of the library that he was treated like this.
Books are coming, it's a waste if no one reads them! Li Yuanying was thinking about how to make the most of the other books in the library, but Gao Yang was tired of visiting the monotonous and boring library, so he pulled Li Yuanying's sleeve and wanted to go to other places to play.
Li Yuanying is also a child at heart, so Gao Yang stopped thinking about it and took them out for a walk.
In the past, Li Yuanying was not crowned king and was too young to leave the palace by himself, let alone bring Gao Yang and the others out to play. Now he can finally go wherever he likes!
Li Yuanying had the freedom, but he hadn't decided where to go, so Li Yuanying simply asked Gao Yang who had the most ideas: "Where do you think we should go?"
Gao Yang hadn't been out of the palace much, but she often played polo with the older imperial brothers, heard a lot of things outside the palace, recalled it and said: "I heard that Pingkangfang is very fun."
Her few imperial brothers privately said that Pingkangfang was a good place, but every time she asked deeply or asked them to take her there, the imperial brothers kept it secret and refused to mention it to her.
People are like this, the more secretive others are, the more you want to know!
The same goes for Gao Yang, she has long wanted to visit Pingkangfang.
Li Yuanying didn't like to play polo or anything like that, and he was a well-known little devil in the world. He had no common topics with the older princes, so he seldom talked about it with them.
Hearing Gao Yang's report of a place name, he searched for the map of Chang'an that he had seen in his mind, looked at it, and said with confidence: "I know where Pingkangfang is. Just go the first way.”
Li Yuanying has a character of leaving as soon as he says he wants to go. He must go to Pingkang Fang with five little lolitas immediately.
Since Si and the others were still young and couldn't go too far, he even asked someone to get a carriage and take them directly to the gate of Pingkangfang.
After getting off the carriage, Li Yuanying felt that this place was quite different from the West Market.
The West Market is very lively and lively, and you can hear all kinds of yelling when you walk on the street. This side is probably because most of the surroundings are the residences of dignitaries and dignitaries, and the streets are much quieter. You can find a lot of mansions along the way, all of which are local offices in Beijing. Officials from all over the country come to these places when they have something to give. Take a break.
In addition, many officials in the capital lived here. For example, Li Yuanying saw the house of Chu Suiliang's family.
Li Yuanying asked Gao Yang strangely: "What's so interesting here?" One is an official and another is an official, it's boring to watch!
Gao Yang said: "Brother Huang, they said it was fun!"
Li Yuanying said: "Then let's walk around and see."
Li Yuanying walked forward for a while, found an old servant and asked him where the interesting places were. The old servant looked at Li Yuanying and Gao Yang behind him with a strange look, and said respectfully: "There is only one interesting place here, and that is Beili. But—"
Gao Yang was already getting impatient, so he interrupted the old servant's "but", and asked: "Then tell us how to get to Beili!"
Seeing Gao Yang's domineering aura, the old servant didn't dare to say any more, and directly pointed them to the way to Beili.
Li Yuanying led the five little lolitas and walked in the direction pointed by the old servant.
The old servant looked at their backs as they walked away, and hurriedly finished what he hadn't finished saying: "But, that place is not suitable for girls! Even that young man looks too small..."
The author has something to say:
Little prince: I don't know where it is, but it sounds like fun!
His Majesty Li Er:? ? ? ?