The emperor Liu Qi, who was sitting behind the eucalyptus table, carefully read the memorial sent by Zhang Ou.
He looked at it very carefully, stroking the soft paper from time to time.
However, Liu Qi's expression changed again and again.
"If I didn't know who you are, I would have thought that you were bribed by a beauty with gold and silk, and I would say nothing but nice things."
There was a smile on Liu Qi's face, and his eyes became softer.
Because the Zhongshan Kingdom described by Zhang Ou in the memorial made him very satisfied.
The people lived a prosperous life, everyone from the king to the petty officials worked hard, and the products were abundant and commerce was developed. This was simply what he ideally looked like as a man.
When he saw in the memorial that King Zhongshan himself had admitted to leaving the country privately, Liu Qi snorted, "You're quite courageous."
With just one expression and one word, a serious matter that could have wiped out the country in the most serious case was easily revealed.
This is of course because Li Yunze's performance satisfied him. If what Zhang Ou said in the memorial were all bad things, such as the king indulged in drinking and debauchery and ignored the life and death of the people, extorted excessive taxes and made it difficult for the people to survive, or even revolted, that would be bad luck.
Of course, Zhang Ou didn't dare to write anything. After all, people would be sent to investigate again, and the truth of the matter would always be exposed.
If he dares to write nonsense, then it will not just be him who abandons the market.
Next, Liu Qi saw the description of Li Yunze's whereabouts outside the Great Wall, focusing on the battle with the Sangda tribe.
Although the scale of the battle is not worth mentioning, it was only a thousand people.
But Li Yunze's performance was outstanding.
Not only did he command decisively, but he also used foot fire to boost morale before the battle, and defeated more than a thousand cavalry with 500 soldiers.
He was even more courageous and launched a night attack at night, completely wiping out the Sanda tribe in one fell swoop.
Seeing the real live version, Liu Qi couldn't help but cheer.
Liu Qi did not immediately agree with the last comment in the memorial that he was "both civil and military".
The reason is simple: the emperor is suspicious.
Even if he trusted Zhang Ou, he would secretly send others to investigate again, and even call Prince Sheng to Chang'an City for a face-to-face assessment in the future.
Writing a memorial and being convinced after saying a few words is something only a foolish king can do.
But there is no doubt that Liu Qi had a good impression of Prince Sheng, especially when the prince became more and more dissatisfied with him.
Soon there was a call outside the door, and Princess Tao of Guan Tao came again.
Liu Qi actually doesn't like Princess Guantao interfering in too many affairs. This is a common problem among emperors and has nothing to do with family ties or anything like that.
It's just that Queen Mother Dou's place...
"His Majesty."
After the high-spirited Princess Guantao came in, she first saluted and then said with a smile, "The marriage between Gillian and Xie'er has been decided. Please give your Majesty's decree."
Gillian is Chen Ajiao, the daughter of Princess Guantao, and Sheer is Liu She, the King of Jiaodong who is only a few years old now.
Princess Guantao was very powerful because she was able to influence her mother, Queen Mother Dou, also known as Dou Yifang.
In the early Han Dynasty, foreign relatives were very powerful, and the Lu family was the most typical representative.
Although the entire Lu family was executed, the trend of relatives continued.
Princess Guantao is not stupid, she is also far-sighted.
She had long planned to invest in the next generation of emperors to pave the way for the future.
At the beginning, Princess Guantao's target was Prince Liu Rong. After all, the prince was the most likely to inherit the throne.
But Liu Rong's mother, Su Ji, was a shady person with an extremely aggressive personality and a lack of understanding of formality.
Not only did she reject Princess Guantao's request for marriage, she was even humiliated.
This is not the end. In history, when Liu Qi was ill, he told Su Ji to take good care of the princes and concubines in the harem. However, Su Ji, a shameless woman, burst out in jealousy and got angry in front of Liu Qi. Not only did she speak
The viciousness even humiliated Liu Qi.
Apart from anything else, even the lower class women in the modern world are better than her, they really don't have any eyesight at all.
Liu Rong was eventually deposed as crown prince, and Su Ji accounted for at least 60% of the reasons!
The incompetent relatives of Su Ji's family accounted for 10%, Liu She's mother Wang Meiren and Princess Guantao's various dirty tricks accounted for 30%, and Liu Rong's own reasons only accounted for 10%.
Liu Qi actually knew what these women were planning.
But he also has his own considerations and calculations.
Originally, he agreed with Chen Ajiao to marry Liu She, even though the age difference between the two was a few gold bricks.
But now Liu Qi was a little hesitant.
He clearly knows Princess Guantao's energy and methods. If in the future...
Once they get married, Princess Guantao will definitely use all her power and means to support Liu She in power.
Although he was dissatisfied with Liu Rong and Su Ji, Liu Qi had no plans to change the crown prince at this time.
More importantly, there is a previously undiscovered treasure that is shining with its own light.
In the future, there will definitely be a big disturbance.
Liu Qi subconsciously glanced at the memorial on the eucalyptus table, "This matter... I am busy with the autumn harvest. We will talk about it after the autumn harvest."
Here in Zhongshan Kingdom, the autumn harvest has ended, and the people whose warehouses are full of grains are cheering and in high spirits.
The tax rate set by Li Yunze is very low, even lower than the tax rate for a recuperating man.
People who have surplus grain in their hands can sell the grain in their hands to exchange for money and silk to buy daily necessities.
Accordingly, a large number of caravans who sensed business opportunities came one after another, and the entire Zhongshan Kingdom was prosperous.
Not only agriculture and commerce, but also culture is very lively.
People from many schools of thought gathered inside and outside Lunu City, taking the white paper provided by Li Yunze for free, and scribbling hard to copy the classic works of their own schools.
The white paper is really great. It is soft and comfortable and can be used to write many words. The most important thing is that it is easy to store.
In the future, a book can be packed and rolled up and taken away, and there will no longer be a need to drive and drag hundreds of kilograms of bamboo slips.
Originally, some schools of thought had plans to hide their secrets.
But after arriving in Lunu City, I found that so many competitors were actually here.
Opponents are all trying their best to show themselves off. If they are still hiding their own secrets, wouldn't they be willing to lose their reputation?
For the school, reputation is the first wealth.
Without reputation, naturally no one will use them.
Without reputation, no one is willing to join the family.
If no one uses it and there is no inheritance, the school will naturally die out.
Under the strong sense of competition, those who had previously planned to hide their secrets no longer hid them, and even took out many whose inheritance was cut off due to the war in the late Qin Dynasty.
In the palace, Li Yunze looked at the books bound with strings in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.
These are all good things.
However, relying solely on transcribing was too slow. He was already preparing to use better technology to expand the popularization of knowledge.
That's right, it's printing.
If you rely solely on handwriting, it would take ten days and a half to start copying a book, even if the content is not much.
And there might be some mistakes.
The most important thing is that in the Han Dynasty, there were not many educated people who could read and write in full.
They are willing to copy now because this is a major event for their school and they are willing to pay for it.
Change time and place and go dream.
Li Yunze has always attached great importance to the dissemination of knowledge, so he studied technology.
As soon as the printing technology came out, it was industrialized mass production, and its terrifying production capacity was enough to make people tremble.
He did not plan to use block printing. This technology consumes too much energy and time and is not suitable for large-scale popularization. It is more useful for small-scale fine products because the printing is clear and beautiful.
Li Yunze directly learned about movable type printing.
The core of movable type printing is the reverse character pattern of single characters.
Making this kind of thing also requires skills.
Li Yunze did not cultivate it slowly, but ordered it directly from the modern world.
He used Xu Shen's "Shuowen Jiezi", Li Deng's "Sheng Lei" and Zhang Ji's "Guang Ya" as standards, and customized a total of 20,000 character models.
For this moment, these words are enough.
Of course, typefaces that meet the standards of the times still need to be made, technicians need to be trained, and kilns need to be established.
Zhang Ou followed Li Yunze to a manor outside the city. When he saw the craftsmen comparing the original manuscripts, selecting the typefaces and arranging them in the dial, applying ink and brushing them, a piece of paper was filled with handwriting.
When it took shape in an instant, my whole body was so smooth
Got it.
"This, this, this..."
Zhang Ou held the paper with trembling hands that still exuded the fragrance of ink. Looking at the clear handwriting on it, he couldn't help but shed tears.
Literary people have a keen sense of the difficulty of promoting knowledge in this era.
In later generations, the Confucian family was the dominant one, and the aristocratic families tried their best to monopolize knowledge and gain profits.
But in the early Han Dynasty, it was still a period when hundreds of schools of thought were flourishing. Everyone was desperately trying to promote their own school of thought, but it was very difficult because of productivity issues.
The brand-new technologies in front of us will definitely have a disruptive impact on the cultural communication of the entire world.
Zhang Ou carefully put away the paper, then turned around and saluted Li Yunze, "The grace of your Majesty will surely benefit eternity!"
This is no longer flattering.
Without printing, large-scale popular education would have been impossible.
Li Yunze nodded, himself very satisfied with these great inventions.
He simply took Zhang Ou and introduced him carefully.
"This technique is called printing." Li Yunze picked up the character model and handed it to Zhang Ou, "Mr. Zhang, please look at this. This is the core of printing. Yangwen reverses the character model."
"This thing is very convenient. When you need to print any words, you just need to select the corresponding words."
"This is typesetting." He pointed at the type plate. "The king asked various schools to submit books for transcription, just to facilitate printing. After all, if we use bamboo slips, one bamboo slip only has a few characters."
"Yes, yes, what the king said is true." Zhang Ou nodded repeatedly and couldn't put it down while playing with the fonts in his hands.
"Apply ink, put paper on it, press and pull it out, and a piece of paper can contain at least a hundred words. The same paragraph of the same book can be printed out dozens, hundreds or even thousands at a time."
Everyone's book pages are copied in the same way, and that's it.
Dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of books!”
Zhang Ou, who was sincerely convinced, saluted Li Yunze again.