The news that His Majesty Li Er picked up a guy and chased Li Yuanying to beat him spread like wildfire.
This pair of brothers is in their forties, the other is only ten years old, and their father passed away several years ago. No matter how you look at it, they are both brothers and fathers. It is only natural for the elder brother to beat the younger brother. However, Li Yuanying refused to be beaten obediently, and ran away when he saw that the situation was not right, so angry that His Majesty Li Er insisted on beating him!
Li Yuanying is still very conscientious. Later, seeing that His Majesty Li Er couldn't run anymore, he went back and pulled His Majesty Li Er into the room to rub his legs and feet in a decent way, and persuaded him earnestly: "Look You are not in good health, and you are running like a man!"
His Majesty Li Er was entangled in state affairs, and he couldn't go out every year to escape the summer heat. He didn't go to Jiucheng Palace this year. He just asked someone to repair Luoyang Palace, and see if he can visit Luoyang Palace next year.
Seeing Li Yuanying sitting next to him pretending to be cute, His Majesty Li Er stopped beating others. What can my younger brother who is used to me do, let's bear it! He raised his hand and knocked on Li Yuanying's head, cursing: "Next time you do this kind of thing again, I will definitely take your skin off!"
Li Yuanying muttered: "It's not you who framed me first."
His Majesty Li Er didn't bother to talk to him.
Although this ending hurt His Majesty Li Er's face and caused everyone to look at him with "I heard you were dumped", the matter of Wu Mei had a good ending. Others would not think His Majesty Li Er's move was absurd when they mentioned it. On the contrary, they would think that the emperor sounded like a lot of flesh and blood.
Li Yuanying asked Dong Xiaoyi to go back to the palace, and told Dong Xiaoyi to hand over the school and library to Wu Mei for management, and he first concentrated on completing the handover of corn and peanuts.
Knowing that Wu Mei was exchanged for corn and peanuts, Dong Xiaoyi felt a pain in his heart. But after Wu Mei quickly drew up the school development plan and implemented it, Dong Xiaoyi knew that he didn't need to feel sorry for Corn and Peanut. With such talents, the first batch of students in the academy will be trained to be the most useful people under them, and they can directly spread the academy when they come to the fief!
In addition to training talents, Wu Mei also selected a group of older students and resident library volunteers to infiltrate into the management of the library in turn, and created a thing called "Library News".
This library newspaper is modeled on the official mansion newspaper. It collects current and interesting stories from all sides for readers who come and go, and puts them in the library for people to read every day. For ordinary articles and worthless news, the original manuscripts are only placed in the original place for others to pick up. Look, well-written articles and valuable news are selected into the library newspaper for the next day, selected by people and posted on the bulletin board outside the library for everyone to read.
Wu Mei felt that it was a waste to have no access to the library, and wanted to use the energy of these scholars as much as possible. After everything has been done, we can't devote ourselves to it silently. It is best to let everyone be proud of the articles selected into the library newspaper, and scramble to send the news they know and the articles they have created to the library. The library is built into a sacred place in the hearts of scholars all over the world! In this way, as long as the library is open for one day, scholars all over the world will remember what King Teng has done for them!
Of course Wu Mei didn't express this idea to Li Yuanying, she knew that Li Yuanying was not interested in being appreciated by scholars all over the world, so she used "this way you can see a lot of strange things every day" when she moved Li Yuanying.
When Li Yuanying heard this, he was very happy, and felt that it was worth it to exchange corn and peanuts for such a powerful person!
At the beginning of August, Li Yuanying received the first library newspaper.
Li Yuanying flaunted the newspaper written by Wu Mei to show off to His Majesty Li Er, and said, "Look, how powerful Mei Niang is, I will say that you are at a loss!"
This thing really suits Li Yuanying's heart, it is full of new and strange things he has never heard of in the palace, and there are some good articles written by scholars!
Li Yuanying sat down in front of His Majesty Li Er, and showed His Majesty Li Er the article copied at the top. This is a "sentence to the publication" that he asked his nephew and the others to put together. Then there was him. With the prince's endorsement, the enthusiasm of scholars to contribute is very high! Li Yuanying said triumphantly, "How is it? Do you regret it? Meiniang is so smart!"
His Majesty Li Er glanced at him and said, "There are so many people around you who can make up stories, isn't it enough for you to listen?"
Li Yuanying said: "How can this be the same? Everyone knows different stories. I can only hear the stories of people in the palace. The library is outside the palace. Everyone can go in and out. I can hear the stories of the people in the palace. Stories to the whole world!"
His Majesty Li Er raised his eyebrows and said: "The tone is quite loud."
Li Yuanying ran in front of His Majesty Li Er, finished presenting the treasure, and left happily.
During this month, Li Yuanying received two pieces of good news one after another: first, the workshop came to announce the good news, saying that they had successfully mastered three different paper-making methods in one year, bamboo paper, reed paper, and straw paper. They also tried some other materials, but unfortunately either the cost was too high or the quality was not good, and it was not as good as the original hemp paper and rattan paper.
The advantage of these three materials is that the materials are easy to find, and different materials can always be found in different seasons. Needless to say, bamboo paper and reed paper are made of bamboo and reed, but straw paper is special.
After the fall of this year, the autumn harvests have started one after another in various places, and the same is true around the workshop. Among the craftsmen was a man named Deng Qing, who was only nineteen years old this year and had just married a wife. His wife's family called him to help, and Deng Qing went.
Just as he was going home with his wife after a busy day, Deng Qing suddenly noticed a pile of straw that had been stripped of grains in the field. According to the old habit, these stalks were to burn the fertile fields, Deng Qing looked at them, somehow thought of the gold ingots that Li Yuanying brought out as a reward for them.
Try it!
If you succeed, you can get a gold ingot!
After Deng Qing had this idea, he and his acquaintances tried to make paper from straw.
As a result, the paper was made, but the paper was not suitable for writing, some were too soft, some were too hard, the color was not good, and there were too many grains. Deng Qing handed over the results to Dong Xiaoyi with one ten-thousandth hope. Dong Xiaoyi was not sure whether this thing was paper, so he took it back to the palace to ask Li Yuanying for instructions.
Li Yuanying looked at it and was very satisfied with it, saying that the softer ones can be used as toilet paper, and the harder ones can be used as wrapping paper, and they are not bad for not being used for writing. He asked Dong Xiaoyi to fetch the gold ingots and distribute them to Deng Qing and the others.
Straw is everywhere in autumn, and it doesn’t cost much. One autumn is enough to make a lot of straw paper. Yang Liu is still raising elephants in Chang’an this year. At worst, he will use elephant dung to exchange straw with ordinary people. Composting elephant dung is much better than burning straw. up!
Although straw paper is not suitable for writing, it is a good material for straw paper! Right now no one would use paper to wipe their buttocks, that would be scolded by scholars all over the world, the richer would use silk, and the poor would use bamboo slices. Li Yuanying felt that if more straw paper could be produced, it would benefit many people's buttocks.
As for the paper for the scholars, Li Yuanying asked them to focus on improving bamboo paper and reed paper. Bamboo paper can grow all over the mountains and fields, and reeds can be found everywhere. These raw materials are cheap! If possible, he hopes to start production as soon as possible, so that he can help Sun Simiao print "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions" to his heart's content!
Deng Qing and others were rewarded, so they started working with great vigor, trying to figure out how to make these papers as soon as possible.
After Li Yuanying made arrangements for the papermaking, he heard that Master Wang was about to return triumphantly, and the whole city was ready to welcome him! Wang Shi was naturally the army led by Hou Junji and Xue Wanjun. They captured Gaochang without any bloodshed, and walked for several months before returning to Chang'an with Qu Zhisheng, the new lord of Gaochang.
When Li Yuanying heard this, he was very excited, not only Hou Junji and the others were coming back, but Dai Ting was also coming back! His grapes and fine wine are coming back!
Li Yuanying ran to inquire with His Majesty Li Er about the date when Hou Junji and others would arrive in Beijing, and calculated the time to go out of the city on a pony to pick up his little partner who was traveling far away.
The first thing Li Yuanying saw after leaving the city was a long army, with Hou Junji and Xue Wanjun leading the way.
Seeing Li Yuanying head on, Hou Junji and Xue Wanjun both looked at him.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Li Yuanying always felt that they were looking at him strangely, as if they were saying "How can there be such a shameless person like you".
Li Yuanying was a little puzzled, but he rode his horse happily to greet Hou Junji and the others, and asked Dai Ting if they had returned with the army.
Hearing the word Dai Ting, Hou Junji's and the others' expressions became even worse.
Xue Wanjun said angrily: "It's in the back, you can see it."
Li Yuanying excitedly rode his horse across the long queue, and finally saw Dai Ting and his party trailing behind the army.
When they set off, Dai Ting only brought a hundred people with him, but now Li Yuanying took a closer look and found that there were nearly a thousand people returning with them, and everyone was carrying big bags and small bags, and even big carts and carts to follow! Li Yuanying also saw hundreds of camels carrying heavy loads.
Li Yuanying opened his eyes wide.
Bringing back so many people and so many things!
Dai Tingyuan was also riding a horse. Seeing Li Yuanying approaching from a distance, he immediately motioned for the team to stop, and dismounted himself to welcome Li Yuanying. Dai Ting was much older than before departure, and there were a few clear scratches on the mask on his face, showing that their trip was not all smooth sailing.
Li Yuanying asked Dai Ting enthusiastically, "How did you bring back so many people?"
Dai Ting briefly explained it to Li Yuanying. In short, the situation was similar to what Li Yuanying had expected. Hou Junji was a man of extravagance. After entering the city, he plundered beauties and property wantonly.
Dai Ting is very picky. He took the opportunity to reveal his identity to some powerful and wealthy households in Gaochang. These people didn't want to be scoured by Hou Junji, so they agreed to join them with their wealth, craftsmen and tricksters. With the baby, the grapes, the fine wine, and the books and talents that Li Yuanying wanted. The things that a hundred of them took, such as the indiscriminate looting of Hou Junji's soldiers, were much more rewarding!
Simply put, it all depends on peers.
Hou Junji took the lead in looting, and the Gaochang people who didn't want to be harmed all defected to them! The guards of the quasi-prince's mansion brought by Dai Ting also looked for opportunities to reassure the beauty, and successfully embraced the beauty!
After hearing this, Li Yuanying understood why Hou Junji and the others looked at him like that.
But he didn't care about that at all.
He looked at the group of Gaochang people brought back by Dai Ting who had lost their country and family and left their homes.
His imperial brother thinks that no matter where the family of the Four Seas is from, as long as they are willing to come to Datang and work for Datang, they are considered as members of Datang!
Li Yuanying and Dai Ting muttered a few words, learned a few words of Gaochang dialect from Dai Ting now, stepped forward and looked at the group of Gaochang visitors with panic-stricken and slightly helpless faces in a friendly manner, imitating what his emperor brother usually brought out. Ge Zi said to them: "Welcome to Datang, Datang will be your future home!"
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