"In this way, the fools of the White Deer Plains will not come to make trouble again."
The one who helped Ren Hong take care of the manor and the acres of land on weekdays was his comrade Lu Guangsu when he was a flint chief in Dunhuang.In the first battle, the five people withstood a whole moment under the attack of more than 100 Huns, and after the war, everyone was injured, especially Lu Guangsu was the most seriously injured, and one foot was directly scrapped.In the next two or three years, he worked as a farmer at home, and he couldn't even do heavy work.Fortunately, with the help of his brother Lu Duojun, plus the reward he got that time, the days were so-so.When Ren Hong sent someone to ask the brothers Lu Duohuang and Lu Guangsu if they would like to come to Guanzhong to be the officials of the Hou family in Xi'an and take care of the manor for themselves, the brothers agreed without the slightest hesitation, and came to Chang'an with their wives and children in the spring.Lu Guangsu spoke the Dunhuang dialect, so he could only stay in the manor to supervise the servant tenant farmers to farm, limping around the fields, and working very hard.It's just that this incident made Lu Guangsu a little indignant, and felt that Ren Hong was feasting those fathers and elders again, and sending crop seeds, which was a little cheaper for them.Ren Hong shook his head with a smile, when the leaders of the lower field go to the local area to plant oranges, they must have a good relationship with the local government and make some good connections in advance, let alone now?"
Does the prince really want to bring the people of Bailuyuan to get rich?""
It's nature."
Ren Hong said with a smile: "The old man, and the old man; The young of me, and the young of man.Since he bought land in Bailuyuan, he also benefited his neighbors. ”Although Ren Hong said that it was not a slogan to take the people of Bailuyuan to get rich, he knew very well that these exotic crops would not bring big changes to their lives for the time being, but they were just evenly distributed, so that the fathers and elders of several townships in Bailuyuan could get some benefits.Nowadays, most people are still suspicious of these strange exotic crops, and only when some people taste the sweetness first, many people will follow suit."
But if you can really let the people of Bailuyuan plant peas and broad beans, it will be a good thing."
If broad beans and peas can be promoted, the most important thing is not to have two more dishes on the table, but to increase the diversity of crops in Guanzhong by two points.Although the Han planting industry is the first in the world, it is still to watch the heavens eat, Guanzhong, which is full of ditches and developed technology, Dasi farmland does not dare to pat his chest to ensure a bumper harvest every year, not to mention the vast world, water and drought are impermanent, and there will be famine in the county every year.In the event of a famine, the more single the crops planted in your field, the more fragile they are.Therefore, there must be five kinds of grain to avoid disasters, and the wheat is finished, and there is millet, and the millet is finished, and there are beans, and no matter how bad it is, it can last a few days by eating vegetable soup, and survive this disaster year, as long as people live, there will be hope for next year.That's why Chinese farmers like to grow a little bit of everything in a small field, just in case, which is a trick learned by struggling on the verge of starvation for thousands of years in thousands of years of getting along with nature."
Also, even chewing that pea and broad bean stalk is better than eating tree bark."
Lu Guangsu also experienced famine when he was a child, and his memory is still fresh.Speaking of bark, Ren Hong remembered another thing."
The bark and vine bark in the river outside the manor are almost soaked?"
When Ren Hong bought the land, he had considered the geographical location, and his manor was adjacent to Chanshui in the west, and the water transportation was convenient.Dozens of miles to the south, there is Xiadu County, where the handicraft industry is developed, and further south is the Qinling Mountains and Lantian Valley, where the shrubs are overgrown, and the trees, mulberry trees, and vines can be seen everywhere, which provides convenience for him to open a small workshop here.Lu Guangsu's elder brother, Lu Duoxiao, who used to be a small official in Hanging Springs, has now been promoted, as the family supervisor of the Marquis of Xi'an, leading a hundred stones, and allowing his wife and children to settle down near the big city.He was taking the craftsmen he recruited to scoop up the tough bark and rattan bark that had been soaked in the fence in the river for nearly a month, all of which were purchased at a low price from Lantian County in the summer."
These things are all from the mountains to the valleys, and they are generally only used to weave rattan shoes, and the people of Lantian are very happy when they hear that some people are willing to spend money to buy them."
However, Lu Duohuang still didn't understand what Ren Hong was doing by buying these useless things.Ren Hong watched as the bark and vine bark that had been soaked enough were stuffed into a large pottery kettle and cooked over a high fire with plant ashes: "Do you still remember when I was preparing to eat and entertain Fu Gong in Hanging Spring, I invited you to go to the market to buy flax seeds, what is used to wrap flax?"
”Lu Duohuang thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there was really such a thing: "I remember that it was Hekta?
”Heyi is the paper of the Western Han Dynasty, which is generally used to make the packaging of medicinal materials, but because of the lack of writing materials on the side of Hanging Quanzhi, it has also been used for writing, and there are several paper books written in the cellar of their Hanging Spring.It's just that the paper is rough and the thickness is very different, but it is not as convenient as bamboo silk silk.After being a doctor of Guanglu and having leisure, Ren Hong made a special trip to visit the weaving room where Hewan was produced in Shangdu, and found that the production of Helu was very simple, but it was the residual silk left in the basket in the silk reeling and beating process.There is also the Mahera, which is similar to the former, and is also made of leftovers in the hemp making process, which is coarser than the Sihera.Ren Hong didn't see a complete papermaking process similar to that of later generations, but it was a rewarding trip, and he immediately understood why papermaking was happening in China and not elsewhere in the world.The first is the unique silk weaving industry, which makes the most primitive paper come out.The second is the accumulation of hemp textile technology, the first few processes of papermaking in Ren Hong's memory, and almost every Han farmer has to learn the process of hemp is very similar, the hemp skin is soaked in water, so that it is naturally fermented, and even the plant ash is boiled and degummed, and it is not much different to replace it with bark and rattan bark, so most of the craftsmen he recruited are the people of the nearby township.With the huge thirst of the government and the people for writing materials, paper came into being in the Han Dynasty, and everything came naturally.Now it's just a matter of replacing the person who inherited the past and the future from Cai Hou to Ren Hou."
After making it, I am not in a hurry to promote it, I will use them again at the best time."
Although the non-commissioned officers in Chang'an City have increased the price of the slip by three percent in order to copy the story of the historical records, Ren Hong does not want the paper to be so hastily published, he wants to wait for the best time to use it as a secret weapon to reduce the dimensionality.The paper-making process is present in every time-traveling novel, and it does not need to be described in detail.Anyway, before the autumn harvest in mid-July, after dozens of people were busy, the pulp was spread from the pond to the paper bed little by little, and was dried in the yard.But the next day, under the excited onlookers of Lu Duowei and others, the ink on the brush in Ren Hong's hand just touched the yellow-green paper, and when it suddenly soaked and melted, it left an ugly ink stain.After trying a few sheets in a row, everyone found that after a few days of busy work, what they made was actually waste paper that could not be written, and it was extremely embarrassing for a while.Lu Duohuang has bowed down and asked Ren Hong to punish, although their first papermaking process was done under Ren Hongyan, but Xi'an Hou will definitely not be wrong, it must be their negligence in one of the processes.But what he didn't expect was that Ren Hong was holding this waste paper that couldn't be written, and the look on his face was even more excited than making a good paper that could write!
This and this, the paper made under the initial exploration of a group of laymen, the appearance is indeed a bit similar, but the paper belly is loose, the flexibility is very bad, and it is soft.Ren Hong's fingertips roamed over it gently, as if caressing the back of his lover's hand, and he could already imagine the touch of them brushing against his most tender skin."
It's okay, it's okay, this is also the paper I want, Duo Huang, quickly write down the recipe this time!"
After speaking, Xi'an Hou took a stack of paper cut into small pieces, left the workshop indifferently, and when he was about to arrive at the manor, he saw that there was no one left and right, so he went straight to the toilet with the paper.In those short dozens of steps, Ren Hong remembered the history of blood and tears over the years.Han people generally use toilet chips, but some toilet chips are not smooth, and if you find yourself bleeding after going to the toilet, it is probably a barb.In addition to toilet chips, in the process of exploring the Western Regions, Ren Hong was also fortunate to learn the strange ways of dealing with various ethnic groups.For example, the Loulan nobles used Luobuma leaves, the Wusun nobles used cut sheep's tails, the fishermen by the Tarim River washed in the water, and the Sogdians used hemp rope, which was still used for public use.Of course, it is more likely to be rubbed directly with the left hand, so it is a great insult to use the left hand to grab rice at their feast.In addition to this, there are straw, hay, vegetable leaves, linen, animal skin linings, other people's clothes.The stones, clay, furry necks of wild ducks, wings of geese and many other strange things in the desert of the Western Regions have all been bravely tried.Except for the legendary salmon slices, cicada wings and dog tongues, Ren Hong tried everything that could be used, and now he wants to say, "It's still paper!"
”Ren Hong took a long breath after finishing it, this is probably the feeling of reading all the beauty and ugliness in the world, and finally looking back, and finally finding that the partner in the previous life is true love!
Although paper is rare, it is a bit extravagant to use it for this, but it is difficult to go from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, Ren Hong feels that he may not be able to do without it for the rest of his life.After Ren Hong walked out of the toilet with satisfaction, he listened to the humming sound in the pigsty next to him, but his eyes were fierce, and his heart was horizontal: "The formula of this kind of paper must be kept secret, only for me and my family to enjoy, and it must not be passed on, otherwise if I am called Ren Hou paper, won't I suffer a big loss?"
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