Pingwang Mansion.

It's lunch time at noon.

Chu Tianxiu came to the main hall and saw the chief of the table. A man in his forties and fifties, wearing a golden-edged brocade robe and a heroic face was sitting upright.

It is the righteous brother who is the most trusted by the current emperor Xiang Yanran. He is in charge of military and political affairs in the world. He is the leader of military officers. He is ranks of ten thousand stones, has a golden seal and a purple ribbon. He is the powerful Taiwei, and the King of Ping Li Rong.

In the Great Chu Dynasty, King Ping Li Rong was undoubtedly a military god.

More than ten years ago, Emperor Xiang Yanran led an army of 200,000 to personally conquer the Huns. The imperial guards escaped from the main force and were accidentally besieged by the Huns army in the border city.

Li Rong led a thousand Li family children and 50,000 cavalry to fight to the death and siege of hundreds of thousands of Huns, rescued Emperor Xiang Yanran from the siege and became a legendary existence.

When Chu Tianxiu was a "Little Hunhou" before, she met Li Rong in the palace and always admired this military god very much.

But I didn't expect that "I" would one day become the son-in-law of King Ping.

However, this is the first time since Chu Tianxiu entered Prince Ping's Mansion, he has seen this busy father-in-law in the mansion.

Li Yu and Chu Tianxiu came from Yuyuan together, and I don’t know why Li Rong sent Chief Qian to summon them to have a meal.

However, seeing that the second wife was there, she looked calm.

Chu Tianxiu suddenly felt that some people were afraid that they would complain to the prince after the past few days. Then the prince asked General Qian to recruit them.

"Yu'er, I've seen Dad!"

Li Yu bowed to Li Rong, glanced at the second wife, and then sat down on his own.

Her cold eyes were already full of vigilance.

"Son-in-law, I've met my father-in-law!"

Chu Tianxiu greets you.

Li Rong nodded slightly and let the three of them take their seats.

Since it is already lunch time, of course we are talking while eating.

The only ones who can attend the table in the main hall of the Prince Ping’s Mansion are Prince Li Rong, the second wife Xie Liyuan, the princess Li Yu, and Chu Tianxiu, the son-in-law.

The other Li family members in the palace were quite large, but they were all side branches and could not eat in the main hall of the palace. The other guards and servants were not allowed to enter the main hall at will.

Li Rong was the main seat of the dining table, the second wife and Li Yu sat on both sides of the dining table, while Chu Tianxiu was opposite the dining table.

Dozens of servants served thirty-six plates of various meat and vegetable dishes, fine wine and clear sauce, and served them.

"Our family hasn't had a meal together for a long time. Today I'm rare to have a free time at home, so I'm just in time for a meal together."

Li Rong did not immediately scold Chu Tianxiu for being a fool, but just asked at him with a smile: "Is it a good thing for the son-in-law to stay in the royal palace these days?"

"Habits are like being in the Marquis' Mansion."

Chu Tianxiu smiled.

The second wife couldn't help but show a caring smile like an elder, and slowly said gracefully: "The prince rarely stays at home and doesn't know anything. Xiu'er has changed a lot of the playboy style she used to be in the Hunhou Mansion and is always in the serious business.

Look, a few days ago, new paper was built...The Confucian scholars in Jinling were all admiring and flocking to the new paper to come to the royal palace to ask for paper."

Chu Tianxiu was puzzled when he heard this.

The second wife, the daughter of Prime Minister Xie, has always been very cold and arrogant. She looks at her son-in-law, who is not happy with her.

Why did you suddenly say good things about yourself in front of the prince?

Pretend to be a good person in front of the prince?

He couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

"My second mother is too good, and her husband just spent time with nothing to do. She improved the papermaking process. It was a trivial matter. My father was busy with the military affairs of the court, so he didn't need to worry about these things."

Li Yu was neither salty nor indifferent, and said.

Li Rong just listened and did not express his opinion.

He rarely stayed in the palace, and he didn't know much about it.

But this matter is strange. Xiao Hunhou made paper, which attracted the Confucian scholars in Jinling City.

The second wife praised her abnormally, but Li Yu looked down upon her.

This seems to be a bit contrary to their past tempers.

He must first understand the whole story of the whole thing so as not to misjudgment the situation.

"A son-in-law is making paper recently?"

Li Rong asked Chu Tianxiu.

"Yes! It's good quality and cheap, and is very suitable for writing ink and making books. Even small characters in fly heads are clearly visible and will not be as blurred as hemp paper. I'm working on books these days and am going to write something."

Chu Tianxiu immediately took a thick paper book from his sleeve and started selling it enthusiastically.

He has been idle these two days, and has woven a stack of hundreds of papers into books with hemp ropes, thinking about writing a book to entertain himself.

However, I had not yet thought about what to write, but I just wrote a "famous poems and essays, writers, Xiaohunhou Chu Tianxiu, passionate works" in the lower right corner of the book.

"A whole paper... made of books?!"

Li Rong took the paper book and looked at it.

This book is only an inch thin, less than a pound, but it is as much as a hundred pieces of paper.

The rich content that can be recorded in small characters for fly heads is equivalent to a hundred volumes of bamboo slips weighing hundreds of pounds.

He was deeply shocked.

For a person who has never been exposed to a whole paper book, it is unimaginable that such a thin book can replace so many bamboo slips of a ox cart.

He was surprised.

Speaking of making books, Li Rong remembered a very shameful thing many years ago.

He once visited Deputy Prime Minister Wang Su.

The Wang family is also one of the top ten clans in Jinling, but it is a scholarly family that has been around for hundreds of years, and the family has a rich collection of books.

Wang Su took him to visit the Wang family's study and was shocked to see that the rows of bookshelves in the big house were filled with thick bamboo slips.

Deputy Prime Minister Wang Su was still showing off in front of him, saying that the Wang family was full of great fortune and had ten thousand volumes of bamboo slips, and they could not even read them.

"Pingwang, do you know what it means to be full of sweat? Look at the bamboo slips in my house, which can use ox to pull hundreds of ox carts, and they will sweat a lot!"

"Old Li, now in this prosperous era of Chu, the world is peaceful, the sword enters the arsenal, and the horse returns to Nanshan. Even the Xiang family was martial before, but now the young people do not mention military affairs this year, and they fall in love with poetry, lyrics and verses. You must also be good at dancing and writing, otherwise you will be out of place with the young people in the court!"

"Brother Rong, you should copy more books in the palace so that your children can read more books. After all, in this era, there are fewer opportunities to play with swords and guns. Only when you read more poetry and books will your children easily enter the official career!"

Deputy Prime Minister Wang’s proud show of showing off clearly shows that he is mocking the Li family of the Pingwang Mansion for being able to only dance with swords and guns, and there are not many books!

"Li was amazed and ashamed of himself!"

What could Li Rong say? He could only return in depression.

Since this incident, this has become a heart-wrenching problem in his heart.

He invested a lot of money and wanted Mr. Jia to teach Li's children the scriptures and literature, and to fight for a sigh of relief in literature.

However, the Li family has a low literary style and their children are not talented. None of them is famous in Jinling City and have always gained little.

As for the collection of books in Prince Ping’s Mansion...not to mention, he instructed the Li family’s children to go to various residences in Jinling to borrow books to copy them.

The Li family members could not hide the face of the family members and asked for books. They thought it was too heavy to copy books on their backs, so they copied only a thousand volumes of bamboo slips over the years.

The copied ones were all the bamboo slips that were rampant, and there were no rare ancient books.

If the collection of books in the Prince Ping's Mansion was changed to a whole book of paper books to record them and sending people to copy books everywhere, it would undoubtedly be very convenient.

One hundred paper books are ten thousand bamboo slips.

It's piled up, less than a box.

A room full of you, please ask for a thousand paper books!

The Pingwang Mansion is full of a room, so it has become the most abundant library in Jinling!

At that time, he invited Deputy Prime Minister Wang to visit the royal palace for the collection of books, and he dared to brag in front of him, so he was full of great things?!

Li Rong touched the paper book, and kept thinking about it, his eyes were full of praise, and he couldn't help but ask: "Son-in-law, how much does this paper book cost?"

Chu Tianxiu brows instantly.

He had been holding it in for so long, teasing the Confucian scholars all over the city, and the scholars tried their best to create momentum for him, hoping to attract big buyers.

Finally, a super big fish took the bait!

Now I'm going to make a lot of money.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he immediately slapped and quoted a price, "Father-in-law, this paper is sold on the price, the cost of a piece of paper... is only five..."

He thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, showed a very painful expression, patted his chest and said loudly, "Five quotations. This is the lowest cost price of the workshop, I don't make a penny.

That is, my father-in-law can get this price. If you sell it at a bamboo slip shop, it must be twenty cents per piece, and a single cent cannot be missed!"

"A piece of paper, five-cent copper coins, is half cheaper than hemp paper, which is very good. A 100-page paper book requires five-cent copper coins, which is enough for a civilian's food for half a year. If it is twenty cents per piece of paper on the market, this paper book will cost two taels of silver."

Li Rongfei quickly calculated and thought about it.

As a Grand Marshal, he is very sensitive to price.

But if you have money in the Pingwang Mansion, you won’t care about this expense. Ten paper books are only five taels of silver, and a thousand books are only five hundred taels.

He was planning to purchase a batch of paper books to fill the study room of Pingwang Mansion.

No, this is too petty.

Just build a book pavilion in the mansion, and a five-story attic is used for collection of books.

Build the largest library in Jinling City, which contains all the books in the world. Confucian scholars and scholars from all over the world just come to our Li Mansion to borrow books and share skills with the Li family's children.
Chapter completed!